Striking

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪkɪŋ

Full definition of striking

Adjective

1. Making a strong impression.
   He looked quite striking in his new suit and tie.
• 1910, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price Chapter 1, This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.

Verb

1. Present participle of strike

Noun

1. The act by which something strikes or is struck.
• 2012, Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?

Anagrams

• skirting