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strikingadjective likely to attract attentionyou'd be amazed what a striking difference new wallpaper can make in a room arresting, bodacious, bold, brilliant, catchy, commanding, conspicuous, dramatic, emphatic, eye-catching, flamboyant, grabby, kenspeckle(chiefly Scottish), marked, noisy, noticeable, prominent, pronounced, remarkable, showy, splashy detectable, discernible(also discernable), observable, perceptible, recognizable, visibleoutstanding, salientdistinguished, eminent, impressive, notable, noteworthyhighlighted, spotlightedflagrant, glaring, howling, screamingflashy, garish, gaudy, glitzy, jazzy, loud, meretricious, swank(or swanky), tawdryhighfalutin(also hifalutin), ostentatious, pretentiousextravagant, fancy, florid, glittery, spectacularopulent, ornate, overdone, overwroughtabsorbing, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, interesting, riveting inconspicuous, unemphatic, unflamboyant, unnoticeable, unobtrusive, unremarkable, unshowy subtleconcealed, hidden, shroudeddim, faint, obscureinsignificant, undistinguished, unimportantmodest, unaffected, unassuming, unpretentiousconservative, plain, quiet, simple, understatedmuted, restrained, subdued, subtle, toned-down, unflashy very noticeable especially for being incorrect or badseveral striking contradictions in her argument blatant, conspicuous, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, obvious, patent, pronounced, rank arresting, clear, distinct, dramatic, emphatic, evident, eye-catching, marked, notable, noticeable, outstanding, plain, prominent, remarkable, salient, showy, splashyabsolute, arrant, downright, out-and-out, outright, sheer, stark, utterdetectable, discernible(also discernable), observable, perceptible, visibleabominable, atrocious, awful, deplorable, execrable, heinous, lousy, monstrous, outrageous, preposterous, shameful, shocking, terrible, wretched imperceptible, inconspicuous, unnoticeable, unobtrusiveinconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, slight, small, trifling, trivialconcealed, hidden, invisible strikingverbpresent participle of striketo refuse to work in order to force an employer to meet demandsthe union is calling for its members to strike until the mining company agrees to meet safety standards to act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a responsewe were struck by the willingness of total strangers to go out of their way to help us affecting, impacting, impressing, influencing, moving, reaching, swaying, telling (on), touching carrying away, dazzling, enrapturing, enthralling, entrancing, ravishing, transportingbiasing(or biassing), coloringinspiring, stirringengaging, interesting, involving, penetrating, piercingafflicting, agitating, bothering, concerning, discomforting, discomposing, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, flustering, harassing, harrying, perturbing, pestering, plaguing, smiting, straining, stressing, troubling, trying, upsetting, worrying, wringingalluring, attracting, bewitching, captivating, charming, enchanting, fascinating getting to boring, jading, palling, tiring, wearyingunderwhelming to enter the mind ofit struck her later that no one at the bank had asked for identification coming (to), crossing, dawning (on), occurring (to) recalling, recollecting, remembering, reminiscingconning, learning, memorizingappearing, arriving, emerging, materializing forgetting, unlearningdisregarding, ignoring, neglecting, overlooking to come into usually forceful contact with somethingthe thump of hailstones striking the cars in the parking lot banging, bashing, bumping, colliding, crashing, hitting, impacting, impinging, knocking, ramming, slamming, smashing, swiping, thudding bouncing, caroming, clunking, glancing, rebounding, ricocheting(also ricochetting), skimming, skippingcontacting, landing, touchingbrushing, grazing, kissing, nudging, scraping, shaving, sweepingbulldozing, jostling, muscling, pressing, pushing missing, skirting to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous mannerthe driver of the car behind me applied his brakes too late and struck my car from the rear banging, bashing, batting, belting, biffing, bludgeoning, bobbing, bonking, bopping, boxing, busting, clapping, clipping, clobbering, clocking, clouting, cracking, hammering, hitting, knocking, nailing, pasting, pounding, punching, rapping, slamming, slapping, slogging, slugging, smacking, smiting, socking, swatting, swiping, tagging, thumping, thwacking, walloping, whacking, whaling, zapping battering, beating, buffeting, bunging, chopping, cuffing, drubbing, lacing, lambasting, licking, mangling, mauling, pelting, peppering, pommeling(or pommelling), pummeling(also pummelling), roughingscuffingbunting, flicking, stroking, tappingbumping, butting, jabbing, jostling, kicking, kneeing, poking, prodding, pushing, shoving, stampingbowling (down or over), creaming, decking, dumping(slang), felling, flooring, knocking down, leveling(or levelling)rabbit-punching, sucker punchingcaning, clubbing, cudgeling(or cudgelling), flailing, flogging, lashing, sapping, slashing, sledgehammering, sledging, spearing, stabbing, switching, thrashing, whippingbeaning, braining, conking, skulling hanging one on to take apartthe stagehands struck the sets the morning after the play closed breaking down, demounting, disassembling, dismantling, dismembering, dismounting, knocking down, taking down detaching, disengagingbreaking up, disaggregating, disarticulating, disconnecting, disjoining, disjointing, dissevering, disuniting, dividing, separating assembling, constructing building, erecting, pitchingcombining, uniting to take sudden, violent action againsta rattlesnake strikes its prey with lightning speed assailing, assaulting, attacking, besetting, bushwhacking, charging, descending (on or upon), going in (on), jumping (on), pouncing (on or upon), raiding, rushing, setting on, siccing(also sicking), storming, trashing, turning (on) bum-rushing, ganging up (on), mobbing, swarmingmugging, robbingambuscading, ambushing, surprising(also surprizing), waylayingblitzing, bombarding, bombing, nukingbarraging, cannonading, cannoningbanging away (at), battering, buffeting, plasteringbeleaguering, besieging, pressingharrying, looting, pillaging, plundering, ravaging, sackingforaying, invading, overrunningenveloping, flanking beating up on, flying at, going at, lighting into, pitching into, rounding on, setting at, setting upon, tearing into covering, defending, guarding, protecting, securing, shielding to cast a spell onthe only way that she's going to get a man is if she strikes one bewitching, charming, enchanting, ensorcelling(or ensorceling), hexing, overlooking, spelling cursing, jinxing, possessing, voodooingattracting, beguiling, captivating, fascinating, mesmerizing, spellbindingenticing, luring, seducing, tempting blessing adj.noticeable, remarkable, prominent, outstanding, conspicuous, salient, striking mean attracting notice or attention.noticeable applies to something unlikely to escape observation.a piano recital with no noticeable errors remarkable applies to something so extraordinary or exceptional as to invite comment.a film of remarkable intelligence and wit prominent applies to something commanding notice by standing out from its surroundings or background.a doctor who occupies a prominent position in the town outstanding applies to something that rises above and excels others of the same kind.honored for her outstanding contributions to science conspicuous applies to something that is obvious and unavoidable to the sight or mind.conspicuous bureaucratic waste salient applies to something of significance that merits the attention given it.the salient points of the speech striking applies to something that impresses itself powerfully and deeply upon the observer's mind or vision.the region's striking poverty in 1725 |