Stunning
['stʌnɪŋ]
Definition
(adj.) strikingly beautiful or attractive; 'quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure'; 'stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas' .
(adj.) causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility; 'laid the poor fellow senseless with one stunning blow'; 'a stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke' .
(adj.) causing great astonishment and consternation; 'the strike came as a stunning protest against management'; 'a stunning defeat' .
Inputed by Franklin--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stun
(a.) Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.
(a.) Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, stunning poetry.
Inputed by Harvey
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Deafening, stentorian, very loud.[2]. [Colloquial.] Striking, astonishing, wonderful.
Edited by Dwight
Examples
- As if that wasn't stunning enough, a hundred lions is turned into the same wild-beast-show all at once! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A stunning blow from the big Greek lexicon, which an old fellow in a black gown fired at him, said Ned. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- As if that wasn't stunning enough, Commodious, in another character, kills 'em all off in a hundred goes! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was a wild masquerade of all imaginable costumes--every struggling throng in every street was a dissolving view of stunning contrasts. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As if that wasn't stunning enough, Vittle-us (and well named too) eats six millions' worth, English money, in seven months! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Edited by Dwight