What is the meaning of stunning?

verb

  • Make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow.
    • usage: "stun fish"
  • Hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag.
  • Overcome as with astonishment or disbelief.
    • usage: "The news stunned her"

adjective

  • Commanding attention.
    • usage: "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert-one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance"
  • Causing great astonishment and consternation.
    • usage: "the strike came as a stunning protest against management"; "a stunning defeat"
  • Causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility.
    • usage: "laid the poor fellow senseless with one stunning blow"; "a stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke"
  • Strikingly beautiful or attractive.
    • usage: "quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure"; "stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"
12
 
|15 years ago|1.2k views|share |citing 
APAWordNet. (2010). stunning. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/stunning/definitions/1184583
ChicagoWordNet. 2010. "stunning" http://smartdefine.org/stunning/definitions/1184583 (accessed September 20, 2026).
HarvardWordNet 2010, stunning, Smart Define, viewed 20 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/stunning/definitions/1184583>.
MLAWordNet. "stunning" 23 October 2010. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/stunning/definitions/1184583>
{ class="autoclick" }next definition (/)