different between inspiring vs gripping

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n.?spa?(?)???/
• Rhymes: -a??r??
• Hyphenation: in?spir?ing

Adjective

inspiring (comparative more inspiring, superlative most inspiring)

1. Providing inspiration; encouraging; stimulating.

Translations

Verb

inspiring

1. present participle of inspire

Noun

inspiring (countable and uncountable, plural inspirings)

1. inspiration
   • 1874, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art

     From the severity of his father to the sweet intellectual inspirings of his wife a sadness seems ever to dwell upon his career. It was not that he was unfortunate. Few men have achieved greater success in life than John Stuart Mill.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????p??/
• Rhymes: -?p??

Adjective

gripping (comparative more gripping, superlative most gripping)

1. Which catches someone's attention; exciting

   a gripping action film

   Synonyms: interesting, absorbing, fascinating

Verb

gripping

1. present participle of grip

Noun

gripping (plural grippings)

1. Obsolete form of griping. (pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines)
   • 1727, Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies

     The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite […]