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STUNNING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Strikingly beautiful or attractive
Example:
stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas
Classified under:
Similar:
beautiful (delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Commanding attention
Example:
a stunning performance
Synonyms:
arresting; sensational; stunning
Classified under:
Similar:
impressive (making a strong or vivid impression)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility
Example:
a stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
disorienting (causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Causing great astonishment and consternation
Example:
a stunning defeat
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
surprising (causing surprise or wonder or amazement)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb stun
Context examples:
The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images returned by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the Murray Buttes region of lower Mount Sharp.
(Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations, NASA)
The stunning announcement comes with plenty of caveats.
(ESO Discovers Earth-Size Planet in Habitable Zone of Nearest Star, NASA)
But the movie, which uses a sequence of 36 interpolated images each separated by 20 minutes, certainly provides a truly stunning 360-degree preview of the overall complex shape of the comet.
(Rosetta Comet May Be a Contact Binary, NASA)
The researchers also said they monitored likely “visually stunning” clouds that could be made of corundum, a mineral found in rubies and sapphires, as they moved around the planet.
(Exoplanet Could Have Clouds of Rubies, Sapphires, VOA)
The ants use this motion to smack other arthropods, likely stunning them, smashing them against a tunnel wall or pushing them away.
(Dracula Ant Found to Be Fastest Creature on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It was colossal, stunning.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The present, with all its perils and anxieties, rushed upon me with stunning force.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Among the first observations to come out of their campaign is a stunning new image of Betelgeuse’s surface, taken late last year with the SPHERE instrument.
(ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse, ESO)
At the same moment, another pirate grasped Hunter's musket by the muzzle, wrenched it from his hands, plucked it through the loophole, and with one stunning blow, laid the poor fellow senseless on the floor.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
With good-fortune Jupiter in your home sector this year trading golden beams with Neptune in your projects house, I feel you might be especially excited about a project that involves the décor of your home—and your result is likely to be stunning.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
