arresting

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

//əˈɹɛstɪŋ//

Striking, gripping.

adjective

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figurativeStriking, gripping.
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.

verb

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Also a form of arrestpresent participle and gerund of arrest

Forms

comparative: more arresting
superlative: most arresting

array · Clothing and ornamentation; raiment.arrest · A check; a stop; an act or instance of arresting something.arrested · Having been stopped or prevented from developing; terminated…

arresting · Striking, gripping.

arrival · The act of arriving (reaching a certain place).arrive · To reach; to get to a certain place.arriving · that arrives

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