stunning

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   strikingly beautiful or attractive

   I looked stunning on my wedding day.

2. 2
   adj

   commanding attention

   The stunning headline was impossible to miss.

3. 3
   adj

   causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility

   I made the robber senseless with one stunning blow.

4. 4
   adj

   causing great astonishment and consternation

   The strike came as a stunning protest against management.

5. 5
   adj

   Having an effect that stuns.

   The stunning jolt from the taser gun made the criminal stop fleeing.

6. 6
   adj

   Exceptionally beautiful or attractive.

   That woman is stunning!

7. 7
   adj

   Amazing; wonderfully good.

   The film was stunning.

8. 8
   noun

   The act by which a person or animal is physically stunned.

   He wished he had tens of thousands more troops under Andez's control so he could round up every one of these demonstrators. But it was futile to continue cracking down. The stunnings, beatings and arrests had only inflamed them further.

Etymology

From Middle English stunnyng, stonyng (also stoniynge, stonyynge), equivalent to stun + -ing.