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"
- synonyms: arresting, sensational
- 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"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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