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Striking vs Thrilling - What's the difference?

striking | thrilling |

As adjectives the difference between striking and thrilling

is that striking is making a strong impression while thrilling is causing the feeling of a sudden excitement.

As verbs the difference between striking and thrilling

is that striking is while thrilling is .

As nouns the difference between striking and thrilling

is that striking is the act by which something strikes or is struck while thrilling is a thrill.

striking

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Making a strong impression.
  • :
  • *
  • *: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

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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?

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    thrilling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing the feeling of a sudden excitement.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thrill.
  • * (William Hope Hodgson), The Night Land
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