stunning

stunning
    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"
    

Stunning \Stun"ning\, a.
   1. Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses;
      especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding
      with noise.
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   2. Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on
      account of excellence; as, stunning poetry. [Slang] --C.
      Kingsley. -- {Stun"ning*ly}, adv. [Slang]
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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.
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            One hung a poleax at his saddlebow,
            And one a heavy mace to stun the foe. --Dryden.
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   2. To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome;
      especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.
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            And stunned him with the music of the spheres.
                                                  --Pope.
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   3. To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.
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            William was quite stunned at my discourse. --De Foe.
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stunning
 adj.

   Mind-bogglingly stupid. Usually used in sarcasm. "You want to code
   what in Ada? That's a ... stunning idea!"
    

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      astounding, attractive, bad, bang-up, beaming, beauteous,
      beautiful, benumbing, bloodcurdling, blooming, bonny, bonzer, boss,
      breathtaking, bright, brilliant, bully, but good, comely,
      confounding, cool, corking, crackerjack, dandy, dazzling,
      deadening, delicious, devastating, divine, ducky, dulling,
      electrifying, exquisite, extraordinary, eye-opening, fab, fabulous,
      fair, famous, fine, fine and dandy, first-class, first-rate,
      first-string, gear, glamorous, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, grand,
      great, groovy, hair-raising, handsome, heavenly, heavy, hot,
      hunky-dory, jam-up, jarring, jolting, just dandy, keen, killing,
      knockout, lovely, magnificent, marvy, mean, mind-boggling,
      narcotic, neat, nifty, nobby, number one, numbing, okay,
      out of sight, overpowering, overwhelming, paralyzing, peachy,
      peachy-keen, petrifying, pretty, pulchritudinous, radiant, raving,
      ravishing, remarkable, resplendent, ripping, royal, rum,
      scrumptious, sensational, shining, shocking, slap-up, smashing,
      solid, something else, sparkling, spectacular, spiffing, spiffy,
      splendid, splendorous, splendrous, staggering, startling, striking,
      stupefying, stupendous, sublime, superb, superior, surprising,
      swell, terrifying, terror, terror-bearing, terror-breathing,
      terror-breeding, terror-bringing, terror-fraught, terror-giving,
      terror-inspiring, terror-striking, terrorful, terroristic, top,
      tough, wizard, wonderful