English adjective: stunning | |||
1. | stunning commanding attention | ||
Samples | An arresting drawing of people turning into animals. A sensational concert--one never to be forgotten. A stunning performance. | ||
Synonyms | arresting, sensational | ||
Similar | impressive | ||
Antonyms | unimpressive | ||
2. | stunning causing great astonishment and consternation | ||
Samples | The strike came as a stunning protest against management. A stunning defeat. | ||
Similar | surprising | ||
Antonyms | unsurprising | ||
3. | stunning causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility | ||
Samples | Laid the poor fellow senseless with one stunning blow. A stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke. | ||
Similar | disorienting | ||
Antonyms | orientating, orienting | ||
4. | stunning strikingly beautiful or attractive | ||
Samples | Quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure. Stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas. | ||
Similar | beautiful | ||
Antonyms | ugly | ||