stunning
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