STUNNING

stunning

(adjective) strikingly beautiful or attractive; “quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure”; “stunning photographs of Canada’s wilderness areas”

arresting, sensational, stunning

(adjective) commanding attention; “an arresting drawing of people turning into animals”; “a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten”; “a stunning performance”

stunning

(adjective) 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”

stunning

(adjective) causing great astonishment and consternation; “the strike came as a stunning protest against management”; “a stunning defeat”

STUN

stun, stupefy

(verb) make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; “stun fish”

sandbag, stun

(verb) hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag

stun, bedaze, daze

(verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; “The news stunned her”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Adjective

stunning (comparative more stunning, superlative most stunning)

Having an effect that stuns.

(informal) Exceptionally beautiful or attractive.

(informal) Amazing; wonderfully good.

Verb

stunning

present participle of stun

Etymology 2

Noun

stunning (plural stunnings)

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

Source: Wiktionary

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]

STUN

Stun, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stunned; p. pr. & vb. n. Stunning.] Etym: [OE. stonien, stownien; either fr. AS. stunian to resound (cf. D. stenen to groan, G. stöhnen, Icel. stynja, Gr. stan to thunder, and E. thunder), or from the same source as E. astonish. *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.

Stun, n.

Definition: The condition of being stunned.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition