Meaning & Definition of Stunning in English

1. Commanding attention

• "An arresting drawing of people turning into animals"

• "A sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"

• "A stunning performance"

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"