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Stunning   /stˈənɪŋ/   Listen
Stunning

adjective
1.
Commanding attention.  Synonyms: arresting, sensational.  "A sensational concert--one never to be forgotten" , "A stunning performance"
2.
Causing great astonishment and consternation.  "A stunning defeat"
3.
Causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility.  "A stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke"
4.
Strikingly beautiful or attractive.  "Stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"


Stun

verb
(past & past part. stunned; pres. part. stunning)
1.
Make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow.  Synonym: stupefy.
2.
Hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag.  Synonym: sandbag.
3.
Overcome as with astonishment or disbelief.  Synonyms: bedaze, daze.



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"Stunning" Quotes from Famous Books



... thousands of readers will derive fresh pleasure from his new book. It has an intensely interesting plot and something happens on every page. Illustrated with stunning drawings by Christy, Leyendecker, Glackens, Parkhurst, and Crawford, and has a striking cover design ...
— A Tar-Heel Baron • Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton
... These may give it character, but of the sort nobody is anxious to carry in his pocket as a wedge by which to enter good, genteel society. "Character," says a leading mind, "is every thing." Quite true; and if of the right sort, will take a man speedily to the noose. Biddy can get the most stunning of characters at the first corner for half a week's wages or—stealings. As a general thing, I don't believe in characters, and for the reason that a large portion of my acquaintances—I go into ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 9, 1870 • Various
... leader. The hint was acted upon and within five minutes from the time it was given, Mr. Perkins was conducting only the red scout through the forest, while he supposed the three were directly in the rear of him, awed and speechless by the stunning observations he was ...
— The Wilderness Fugitives • Edward S. Ellis
... regular old ark. We've got everything our own way. Mike, from the stables, is as solid as a brick wall. The horses are perfectly safe and we're going to have footstoves to keep our toes warm. Mrs. Cole has telephoned down to Howe's to have our supper ready, and we're going to have a simply stunning time." ...
— The Governess • Julie M. Lippmann
... you'll soon be all right," continued Bob. "Well, we had some good fish, nicely cooked, and some stunning curry; the best I ever ate; and we had sambals, as ...
— Middy and Ensign • G. Manville Fenn


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