stunning
Meanings
Plural: stunnings
Verb
- make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
- hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
- overcome as with astonishment or disbelief
- present participle and gerund of stun
Adjective Satellite
- commanding attention
- "a stunning performance"
- causing great astonishment and consternation
- "the strike came as a stunning protest against management"
- "a stunning defeat"
- 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"
- strikingly beautiful or attractive
- "quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure"
- "stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"
Adj
- Having an effect that stuns.
- Exceptionally beautiful or attractive.
- Amazing; wonderfully good.
Noun
- The act by which a person or animal is physically stunned.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English stunnyng, stunnynge, stounyng, equivalent to stun + -ing.
Scrabble Score: 9
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Words With Friends Score: 14
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