eye-popping
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Extremely surprising, impressive, or startling: "Eye-popping" describes something that causes great surprise or amazement, often due to being visually spectacular, unexpectedly large, or extraordinarily impressive.
- Visually dazzling or stunning: It can specifically refer to something that is so bright, colorful, or vivid that it seems to make one's eyes open wide in astonishment.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The company reported eye-popping profits this quarter. (The profits were surprisingly and impressively large.)
- The artist used eye-popping colors in her latest mural. (The colors were extremely vivid and visually stunning.)
- The magician's final trick was truly eye-popping. (The trick was amazingly impressive and startling.)
Advanced Usage
- Used for emphasis on scale or intensity: Often modifies nouns related to statistics, visuals, or performances to emphasize an extreme degree.
- The documentary revealed the eye-popping cost of the project.
- Informal and hyperbolic: The term is informal and often used for dramatic effect rather than literal description.
Variants and Related Words
- Eye-opener (noun): An event or piece of information that is surprising and reveals something new.
- The report on climate change was a real eye-opener.
- Pop-eyed (adjective): Having eyes that are wide open with surprise or astonishment.
- The children were pop-eyed with excitement.
Synonyms
- Astonishing: Extremely surprising or amazing.
- Breathtaking: Astonishingly beautiful or impressive.
- Dazzling: Extremely bright, impressive, or skillful.
- Staggering: Deeply shocking; astonishing.
Related Phrases
- To make one's eyes pop: An informal phrase meaning to cause great surprise or amazement.
- The size of the diamond will make your eyes pop.
Adjective
- amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning
- the skater's dazzling virtuosic leaps
- these great best canvases still look as astonishing and as invitingly new as they did...when...his fulgurant popularity was in full growth- Janet Flanner
- adventures related...in a style both vivid and fulgurous- Idwal Jones