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adjective
1.
attractive; impressive: a scene of striking beauty.
2.
noticeable; conspicuous: a striking lack of enthusiasm.
3.
being on strike, as workers.
4.
a.
capable of attacking an enemy, especially by air: striking power.
b.
within the extent of space through which it is possible to attack a target effectively: striking distance.
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Strikingness
is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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Word Origin & History
striking
"producing a vivid impression," 1752, from strike (v.) in the sense of "to catch the fancy of" (1599).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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