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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



... "What a stunning climax!" exclaimed Roland with a laugh. "Our adversaries arrive and you are dosing me with smelling salts like a hysterical woman. Do you know what they, and you, first of all, would have ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas, pere
... the priest. Father Murray briefly gave the detective a resume of what had occurred, including the information which had so stunned Mark Griffin, and now had an even more stunning effect on Saunders, the information regarding the priest's relationship to ...
— Charred Wood • Myles Muredach
... horse, and some hunters, in their desperation at seeing the wonderful animals escape, have tried to "crease" them. That is, they strive to shoot so that the bullet will barely graze the top of the animal's vertebrae, just behind the ears, stunning the horse and making it helpless for the capture. But necessarily such shots are made from a distance, and little short of a miracle is needed to make the bullet strike true—for a fraction of an inch too low means death. So another laugh of appreciation ran around the barroom ...
— The Night Horseman • Max Brand
... just getting to that. As I say, I create. You only interpret. I don't know as it counts that you don't try to interpret my scareheads, though some of them would make stunning fugues. Take the last one, for instance: Billions at Stake: Potato Corner in Prospect. You could work up something fine from that, Thayer. Think of the chest tones you could throw into the ...
— The Dominant Strain • Anna Chapin Ray
... "The blow was stunning and unexpected; for I thought the danger over, by the long interval between her stated amelioration and the arrival of the express. But I have borne up against it as I best can, and so far successfully, that I can go about the usual business of life with the same appearance ...
— Life of Lord Byron, With His Letters And Journals, Vol. 5 (of 6) • (Lord Byron) George Gordon Byron


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