Antonyms for startling
ˈstɑrt lɪŋ, ˈstɑr tl ɪŋstar·tling

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1. startlingadjective

   Synonyms:
   alarming

2. startlingadjective

   Likely to startle; surprising; shocking.

   Synonyms:
   alarming

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1. startlingadjective

   so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm

   "Sydney's startling new Opera House"; "startling news"; "startling earthquake shocks"

   Antonyms:
   unsurprising

How to use startling in a sentence?

1. Leonard Cohen:

   Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.

2. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson:

   To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

3. Edward Stanley:

   It was incredibly exciting to see these animals for the first time, it was exciting and startling, actually, how well they were preserved.

4. Vijay Chokal-Ingam:

   My change in appearance was so startling that my own fraternity brothers didn't recognize me at first.

5. Sarah Huckabee Sanders:

   Director Comey made a pretty startling revelation that he had essentially taken a stick of dynamite and thrown it into the Department of Justice by going around the chain of command, that is simply not allowed.

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