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stunning

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stun·ning  (stnng)
adj.
1. Causing or capable of causing emotional shock or loss of consciousness.
2. Of a strikingly attractive appearance.
3.
a. Impressive: gave a stunning performance.
b. Surprising: The President's final decision came with stunning suddenness.

stunning·ly adv.

stunning
Adjective
Informal very attractive or impressive
stunningly adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.stunning - commanding attention; "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance"
impressive - making a strong or vivid impression; "an impressive ceremony"
2.stunning - causing great astonishment and consternation; "the strike came as a stunning protest against management"; "a stunning defeat"
surprising - causing surprise or wonder or amazement; "the report shows a surprising lack of hard factual data"; "leaped up with surprising agility"; "she earned a surprising amount of money"
3.stunning - 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"
disorienting - causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings; "making so many turns to the right and then the left was completely disorienting"; "a sharp blow to the head can be disorienting"
4.stunning - strikingly beautiful or attractive; "quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure"; "stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"
beautiful - delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration; "a beautiful child"; "beautiful country"; "a beautiful painting"; "a beautiful theory"; "a beautiful party"

stunning
adjective (Informal) wonderful, beautiful, impressive, great (informal) striking, brilliant, dramatic, lovely, remarkable, smashing (informal) heavenly, devastating (informal) spectacular, marvellous, splendid, gorgeous, dazzling, sensational (informal) drop-dead (slang) ravishing, out of this world (informal) jaw-dropping << OPPOSITE unimpressive
Translations
stunning [ˈstʌnɪŋ] adj (fig) → pasmoso
stunning [ˈstʌnɪŋ] adj (= beautiful) → étourdissant(e); [news etc] → stupéfiant(e)
stunning [ˈstʌnɪŋ] stun adj (news, event) → sensationell;
(girl, dress) → hinreißend
stunning [ˈstʌnɪŋ] adj [piece of news etc] → sbalorditivo/a; [girl, dress] → favoloso/a, stupendo/a


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Everything's going A1 here, and they've built me this little bungalow, only got in it last week - stunning, isn't it?
This flight and pursuit, this cruel burning and destroying, these dreadful cries and stunning noises, were THEY the good lord's noble cause!
It struck poor Tom, point foremost, and with stunning violence, right between the shoulders in the middle of his back.
 
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