Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

arresting

/əˈɹɛstɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English

Syllables: ar-rest-ing
IPA: /əˈɹɛstɪŋ/

10

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Striking, gripping.

verb

present participle and gerund of arrest

Example Sentences

"There's a little of each in "Julien Donkey-Boy," a visually arresting, dramatically blurry portrait of a schizophrenic."
"This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told. On an alternate timeline without Donald Trump in office dismantling the American scientific establishment and Elon Musk kneecapping the American state, it might have been the manifesto of a new politics."

Inflected Forms

more arresting (comparative) most arresting (superlative)

Derived Forms

arrestingly arrestingness

Phrases

arresting gear

Synonyms

sensational stunning

Rhymes With

testing suggesting investing resting requesting protesting nesting contesting molesting ingesting digesting vesting

Questions

How do you pronounce arresting?: The recorded pronunciation is /əˈɹɛstɪŋ/.
What does arresting mean?: Striking, gripping.

How to pronounce arresting

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