stunning

(adjective, verb)

adjective

1. commanding attention

- a stunning performance

Similar word(s): impressive, arresting, sensational

2. causing great astonishment and consternation

- the strike came as a stunning protest against management

- a stunning defeat

Similar word(s): surprising

3. 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

Similar word(s): disorienting

4. strikingly beautiful or attractive

- quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure

- stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas

Similar word(s): beautiful

Sentences with stunning as an adjective:

- The stunning jolt from the taser gun made the criminal stop fleeing.

- That woman is stunning!

- The film was stunning.

verb

1. present participle of stun