gripping

[ grip-ing ]
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adjective
  1. holding the attention or interest intensely; fascinating; enthralling: a gripping play; a gripping book.

Origin of gripping

1
First recorded in 1620–30; grip + -ing2

Other words from gripping

  • grip·ping·ly, adverb
  • grip·ping·ness, noun

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How to use gripping in a sentence

  • A grippingly important work that belongs on the shelf alongside The Looming Tower and Ghost Wars.

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  • He fixed a strong hand grippingly in the back of Papa Finkelsteins collar.

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  • But of the puzzle of it one fact stood out grippingly vital to Sheila.

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