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stunning

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for stunning

Mnemonics, your own examples, reminders…

Forms

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative
more stunning
Superlative
most stunning

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
stunnings

Definitions

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

  1. 1.Having an effect that stuns.

    • The stunning jolt from the taser gun made the criminal stop fleeing.

  2. 2.Exceptionally beautiful or attractive.(informal)

    • What if the very things you like in me now, you'd hate sometime. What if the things I think are strong and stunning in you now, I'd think were pig-headed and kickable after a while?
    • The line along the Northumbrian coast to Berwick and into Scotland is stunning (even on a Voyager!), and the weather is perfect - just sit back, relax, and enjoy the motion picture that plays beyond the window.

  3. 3.Amazing; wonderfully good.(informal)

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 1.present participle and gerund of stun

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

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

Frequency

Overall

Rare· #5035

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Rare
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

Etymology

From Middle English stunnyng, stunnynge, stounyng, equivalent to stun + -ing.

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