stunning
Plural: stunnings
Verb
- make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
- hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
- overcome as with astonishment or disbelief
- present participle and gerund of stun
Adjective Satellite
- commanding attention
- "a stunning performance"
- causing great astonishment and consternation
- "the strike came as a stunning protest against management"
- "a stunning defeat"
- 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"
- strikingly beautiful or attractive
- "quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure"
- "stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"
Adj
- Having an effect that stuns.
- Exceptionally beautiful or attractive.
- Amazing; wonderfully good.
Noun
- The act by which a person or animal is physically stunned.
Adjective
- Strikingly beautiful or attractive; causing astonishment or shock.
Examples
- That stunning seven-letter word completely changed the dynamic of the Scrabble board.
- That woman is stunning!
- The film was stunning.
- The stunning jolt from the taser gun made the criminal stop fleeing.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English stunnyng, stunnynge, stounyng, equivalent to stun + -ing.
Scrabble Score: 9
stunning: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordstunning: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
stunning: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 14
stunning: valid Words With Friends Word