Lexic.us

Definition of Stunning

1. Adjective. Commanding attention. "A stunning performance"

2. Adjective. Causing great astonishment and consternation. "A stunning defeat"

3. Adjective. Causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility. "A stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke"

4. Adjective. Strikingly beautiful or attractive. "Stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"

Definition of Stunning

1. a. Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.

Definition of Stunning

1. Adjective. Having an effect that stuns. ¹

2. Adjective. Exceptionally beautiful or attractive. ¹

3. Adjective. Amazing. ¹

4. Verb. (present participle of stun) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stunning

1. strikingly beautiful or attractive [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stunning

stun stun baton stun gun stun guns stunad stung stunk stunk on ice stunkard stunna

stunnas stunned stunner stunners stunng stunning (current term) stunningly stunningness stunnings stunod

stunods stuns stunsail stunsails stunt stunt cocks stunt double stunt doubles stunt flier

Literary usage of Stunning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... immediate effect of the stunning blow had passed, thry set themselves to meet the new conditions. A few typical examples of the many clergymen w whom ..."

2. Tactics by William Balck (1911)
"Infantry fire may produce either a stunning and paralyzing effect on the hostile ... The fire will have a stunning and paralyzing effect when it is suddenly ..."

3. Tactics by William Balck (1915)
"Infantry fire may produce either a stunning and paralyzing effect on the hostile forces, or it may gradually exhaust, wear out, and consume them. ..."

4. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"by Request—A stunning and Murderous Blast.—Bursting of the Gun,—Death all Around.—Frightful Shrieks and Groans —Scattering of Mangled Remains—Agony of ..."

5. The Achievements of Stanley and Other African Explorers: Comprising All the by Joel Tyler Headley (1878)
"... REACHED—OCCUPIES STANLEY'S HOUSE—A SLAVE AUCTION—SICKNESS AND DISCOURAGEMENTS—A stunning BLOW—LIVINGSTONE DEAD- DEATH OF DILLON—DESPONDENT ..."

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