Definition of STUNNING

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

stunning is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
stunning is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stunning is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

stunning is a valid Words With Friends word