Definition of stunning
Adjectives
commanding attention
"a stunning performance"
- Synonyms:
- arresting, sensational
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impressive
making a strong or vivid impression
causing great astonishment and consternation
"the strike came as a stunning protest against management"
"a stunning defeat"
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surprising
causing surprise or wonder or amazement
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"
- Synonyms:
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disorienting
causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings
strikingly beautiful or attractive
"quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure"
"stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"
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beautiful
delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
Vocabulary Lists for stunning
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island »(2273 words)
Vocabulary study guide for Robert Louis Stevenson's...
- seamanly
- squire
- rum
- stockade
- clove hitch
- admirable
- adorable
- agreeable
- alluring
- ambrosial
Clint Easwood - The New Yorker March 2010 (1) »(1536 words)
- crapper
- convolute
- self-reproof
- cowhand
- patness

