Definition of STUNNING

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 Word
stunning: 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