- 1extremely unusual and surprising a startling discovery startling revelations in the celebrity magazines
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- 2(of a color) extremely bright startling blue eyes Her skin was a startling white.
adverb She was startlingly beautiful. Their findings are startlingly similar.See startling in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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