Attracting
Surprising and attracting are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Surprising" instead an adjective "Attracting".
Surprising
Surprising adjective - Causing wonder or astonishment.
Usage example: it's surprising how much knowledge of physics the architects of those immense medieval cathedrals must have had
Attracting and surprising are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Attracting" instead an adjective "Surprising".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Rule of Funny applies, but Inspector Gadget went rather beyond most examples of this trope when the Mad Scientist Big Bad of an episode had surprising success in stealing all the world's gold — including pulling fillings out of peoples' mouths — by attracting it to his "gold magnet".
Source: Selective Magnetism
Cite this Source
Surprising and Attracting. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/attracting/surprising
Attracting & Surprising. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/attracting/surprising>.
Surprising or Attracting. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/attracting/surprising.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "attracting" and "surprising" have occurred on timeline