Someone who is strikingly beautiful can be described as stunning. There's something magical about weddings that makes every bride look stunning.
Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.
Adjective S.
strikingly beautiful or attractive; "quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure"; "stunning photographs of Canada''s wilderness areas"
Adjective S.
commanding attention; "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance"
Adjective S.
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"
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causing great astonishment and consternation; "the strike came as a stunning protest against management"; "a stunning defeat"
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Stun
a.
Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses;
especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.
a.
Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on
account of excellence; as, stunning poetry.
Stunning
Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise.
Usage Examples
Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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Other Usage ExamplesPaul McCartney had a baby when he was 61 Rod Stewart was 66 Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.
Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.
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