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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STUNNING, ppr. Overpowering the organs of hearing; confounding with noise.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1667 1. causing astonishment or disbelief <stunning news> 2. strikingly impressive especially in beauty or excellence <a stunning view> <stunning workmanship> • stunningly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. colloq. extremely impressive or attractive. Derivatives: stunningly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. A stunning person or thing is extremely beautiful or impressive. She was 55 and still a stunning woman... ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. A stunning event is extremely unusual or unexpected. The minister resigned last night after a stunning defeat in Sunday's vote... ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Deafening, stentorian, very loud. 2. Stupefying. 3. (Colloq.) Striking, astonishing, wonderful.

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