Startling
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Likely to startle; surprising; shocking.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
Example sentence: Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
Surprising
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The action of the verb to surprise.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: That is or are a surprise.
Example sentence: It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.