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stunning

/'st/@/n/i//N/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

adjective

  1. Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.

    adjective

    Source: webster1913

adjective satellite

  1. commanding attention

    adj.all

    Examples
    A stunning performance.
    Synonyms arresting sensational

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  2. causing great astonishment and consternation

    adj.all

    Examples
    The strike came as a stunning protest against management.
    A stunning defeat.

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  3. causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility

    adj.all

    Examples
    Laid the poor fellow senseless with one stunning blow.
    A stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke.

    Source: WordNet 3.0

  4. strikingly beautiful or attractive

    adj.all

    Examples
    Quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure.
    Stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas.

    Source: WordNet 3.0

Nearby words

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