stunning meaning and definition

STUNNING adjective

Definition of stunning (adjective)

1. commanding attention
   • "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance"
   • synonyms: arresting, sensational
2. causing great astonishment and consternation
   • "the strike came as a stunning protest against management"; "a stunning defeat"
3. 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"
4. strikingly beautiful or attractive
   • "quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure"; "stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"