Find the word definition

Crossword clues for stunning

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stunning
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
beautiful/stunning
▪ The countryside between the Alpine villages is stunning.
stunning (=very beautiful)
▪ We drove through some stunning scenery.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
most
▪ Electro body is without doubt one of the most stunning arcade action games.
▪ If you are heart-free and not at all stuck in your ways, then 1993 could produce the most stunning liaison.
▪ Out of the 33 beautiful beaches on Anguilla, Shoal Bay is the most stunning.
quite
▪ Planted in groups, the massed effect is quite stunning and rivals any massed Herbaceous border for elegance and appeal.
▪ I can hardly wait - I hear some of John's outfits are quite stunning.
▪ It was really quite stunning, even for me, to see it happen.
▪ Some shots, particularly the front and rear covers of the book, are quite stunning.
▪ Let me say right away, that this is a quite stunning record.
■ NOUN
view
▪ There are some stunning views and unique vantage points just crying out to be exploited by the imaginative photographer.
▪ Passed Bonhomme which has stunning views then on to Chapieux.
▪ They lived in a huge house just outside Richmond which had stunning views across the moors.
▪ But the worsening weather conditions as we cycled destroyed any possibility of us seeing such stunning views.
▪ Here, there is no village just marvellous countryside and stunning views.
▪ There is a restaurant offering simple cuisine, and a garden and pool with stunning views.
▪ Alternatively, try wild-water rafting or surfing; and for stunning views, hot air ballooning.
▪ Once you got to the top, you have a stunning view and a choice.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a stunning victory
▪ Ella's stunning photography
▪ Knox's metal statues are stunning.
▪ Men always stared when she looked good, and today she was stunning.
▪ Mother came out of her room, looking stunning in her silk dressing gown.
▪ Rafaella wore a stunning white satin wedding gown.
▪ the restaurant's stunning decor
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bracken Twist is a stunning new Tufted range of 12 colours, manufactured in 50% wool, 50% polypropylene.
▪ However, at a 640 by 480 resolution the 32,000 colours offered by the card are simply stunning.
▪ I can hardly wait - I hear some of John's outfits are quite stunning.
▪ In the first minute of the second half Celtic fashioned a stunning goal.
▪ Once you got to the top, you have a stunning view and a choice.
▪ Three which weren't securely fastened include the stunning limited edition Ovation 1992 electro-acoustic with its great sound and gorgeous top.
▪ We took three Hairflair readers along to the Schwarzkopf London Academy to try these new professional products - the results were stunning!
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stunning

Stun \Stun\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stunned; p. pr. & vb. n. Stunning.] [OE. stonien, stownien; either fr. AS. stunian to resound (cf. D. stenen to groan, G. st["o]hnen, Icel. stynja, Gr. ?, Skr. stan to thunder, and E. thunder), or from the same source as E. astonish. [root]168.]

  1. To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head.

    One hung a poleax at his saddlebow, And one a heavy mace to stun the foe.
    --Dryden.

  2. To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.

    And stunned him with the music of the spheres.
    --Pope.

  3. To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.

    William was quite stunned at my discourse.
    --De Foe.

Stunning

Stunning \Stun"ning\, a.

  1. Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.

  2. Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, stunning poetry. [Slang]
    --C. Kingsley. -- Stun"ning*ly, adv. [Slang]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stunning

1660s, "dazzling," present participle adjective from stun (v.). Popularized for "splendid, excellent" c.1849. Related: Stunningly.

Wiktionary
stunning
  1. 1 Having an effect that stuns. 2 Exceptionally beautiful or attractive. 3 amazing (very good). v

  2. (present participle of stun English)

WordNet
stunning
  1. adj. commanding attention; "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance" [syn: 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"

stun
  1. v. make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish" [syn: stupefy]

  2. surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted" [syn: shock, floor, ball over, blow out of the water, take aback]

  3. hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag [syn: sandbag]

  4. overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; "The news stunned her" [syn: bedaze, daze]

  5. [also: stunning, stunned]

stunning

See stun

Wikipedia
Stunning

Stunning is the process of rendering animals immobile or unconscious, without killing the animal, prior to their being slaughtered for food.

Usage examples of "stunning".

The scene in Tokyo Bay, coming in the wake of the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, offered a stunning lesson in the kind of material strength and affluence that might be attained under American-style democracy.

This, her first direct leap for liberty, set Clara panting, and so much had she to say that the nervous and the intellectual halves of her dashed like cymbals, dazing and stunning her with the appositeness of things to be said, and dividing her in indecision as to the cunningest to move him of the many pressing.

For those situations in which these measures prove inadequate, chemists have produced a stunning array of drugs to control the mind, such as those to enable people to relax, to become mentally aroused and alert, to sleep, to relieve anxiety, to overcome depression, to counteract attentional disorders, to improve the memory, and to experience euphoria, bliss, and even alleged mystical states of consciousness.

Isabella Montero was stunning in the way that only a woman of means could afford.

On the main screen, the murk parted and with stunning clarity a gargantuan Borg cube cut through the mustardy cloud, on a dead-ahead collision course with Voyager!

Yes, Miss Phosphor McCabe did the really stunning photographic article for Heritage Geographical Magazine.

Miss Phosphor McCabe did another really stunning photo-graphic article for the Heritage Geographical Magazine.

They left the studio and settled on a sort of divan before a long low window in one of her front rooms, and sat looking out at a sunset of stunning photochemical complexity, an astounding apocalyptic Wagnerian thing: enormous bold jagged streaks of scarlet and gold and green and violet and turquoise warring frantically with each other for possession of the sky above San Francisco.

She looked stunning in a shoulderless black dress and long white gloves, and he briefly wavered again between visiting her empty room, as he had decided, and investigating her in person.

She had a few stunning pieces of furniture by Starck and Saladino mixed in with sprawling vanilla velvet sofas and chairs.

The change that had come over Villefort during the examination, the destruction of the letter, the exacted promise, the almost supplicating tones of the magistrate, who seemed rather to implore mercy than to pronounce punishment,all returned with a stunning force to his memory.

The change that had come over Villefort during the examination, the destruction of the letter, the exacted promise, the almost supplicating tones of the magistrate, who seemed rather to implore mercy than to pronounce punishment, -- all returned with a stunning force to his memory.

Valentine and struck him with stunning impact, buffeting him, swaying him, sweeping him for a moment into chaos.

American junk food and were being not so subtly stalked by an unamused assistant store manager whose gleaming bald head, Drake decided, would make a stunning addition to the contemporary look of their living room, up on the mantel perhaps, somewhere between the laser clock and the soapstone hand grenade, when the floor turned to Jell-O and cartons of milk began tumbling out of the dairy case.

Clearly, the stunning paintings were the work of a single artist of unmatched talent.