Stunner

Definition: Stunner

Stunner

Noun

1. A very attractive or seductive looking woman.

2. An unexpected and amazing event: "the stunner was what happened on Saturday".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stunner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Synonyms: Stunner

Though she was a stunner, she was way past her prime. (Forbidden Bodies; writing credit: John Blaise; S. Moro)

Teen Asian Stunner (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pogo]. Trouble is -- if I writes a stunner of a poem fer the Deacon an' it overcomes Miz Boombah .. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Albanian

njeri i mahnitshëm, gjë fantastike. (various references)

Arabic 

‏حلوة (painted), ‏جميلة (beauty, bonny, comely, shapely), ‏رائعة (masterpiece, masterwork). (various references)

Bulgarian 

прекрасен човек, прекрасен предмет, изумителен човек, изумителен предмет. (various references)

Danish

strømførende vandbad (waterbath stunner), bedøvelse ved vandbad (waterbath stunner). (various references)

Dutch

elektrisch verdovingstoestel (electric stunner), bedwelming met behulp van waterbaden (waterbath stunner). (various references)

Farsi 

گیج کننده (Hectic, Problematic, Stickler), ادم گیج . (various references)

Finnish

sähkötainnutin (electric stunner). (various references)

French

superbe (stellar). (various references)

German

Mordsding (smasher, snorter, thumper, whacker, whopper). (various references)

Greek 

κάτι σπουδαίο, ζαλίζων (staggering). (various references)

Hungarian

nagyszerű dolog (clinker), meglepő ember, megdöbbentő dolog (shocker), lesújtó dolog, klassz dolog (corker, crackajack, crackerjack, peach, ripper, spanker), elképesztő ember, elképesztő dolog. (various references)

Italian

storditore elettrico (electric stunner), dispositivo di stordimento con bagno d'acqua (waterbath stunner). (various references)

Manx

kyrlogheyder (stunning). (various references)

Pig Latin

unnerstay

Portuguese

infeccioso (absorbing, catching, contagious, infectious, infective, taking), encantador (alluring, attractive, bewitching, catchy, charmer, charming, delightful, enchanter, enchanting, fairy, fascinating, fine, glamorous, glamourous, lovable, lovely, magic, magical, pleasant, pretty, ravishing, scrumptious, seductive, sightly, sweet, taking, winsome, witching), contagioso (absorbing, catching, communicable, contagious, infective, pestilent, pestilential, taking), cativante (attractive, captivating, catch, catchy, charming, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, lovable, lovely, prepossessing, sweet, taking, winsome), atraente (appealing, attractable, attractive, bewitching, captivating, catch, charming, cute, dinky, engaging, enthralling, enticing, fetching, ingratiating, interesting, inviting, lovely, magnetic, nice, nice-looking, pinup, prepossessing, pretty, sexy, striking, taking, tempting, winning, winsome, yummy), agradável (amiable, comely, congenial, cushy, delectable, delightful, easy, enjoyable, entertaining, fine, genial, gladsome, glorious, good-humored, good-humoured, goodly, good-natured, kindly, lovely, merry, music, musical, neat, nice, nutty, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, racy, restful, snug, sober-blooded, soft, songful, suave, taking, welcome, well-done, well-natured). (various references)

Romanian

persoanã sãu lucru care uimeşte. (various references)

Russian 

потрясающее зрелище, изумительный экземпляр. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ošamutilac, koji zadivljuje, koji ošamućuje (stunning). (various references)

Spanish

persona maravillosa. (various references)

Swedish

panggrej. (various references)

Turkish

yakışıklı (comely, good looking, handsome, personable, shapely, sightly, smart, well favored, well-favoured), harika şey (a perfect dream, groove, hot stuff, miracle, pippin), afet (a bewitching beauty, bane, beauty, blight, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, kayo, knockout), çekici kimse (honeypot, loadstone, lodestone). (various references)

Ukrainian

майстер (artiste, craftsman, deacon, foreman, master, nailer, overman, overseer, workman), дивовижний екземпляр. (various references)

Vietnamese 

người rất thú vị chuyện hay, chuyện lý thú. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stunner": stunners. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stunner" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: schunner, shunner, stannary, stune, stuner, stunnor, sturner, sunnr. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: tuners, unrent, unrest, unsent.

-2 letters: nerts, nurse, rents, runes, runts, stern, terns, trues, tuner, tunes, turns, unset.

-3 letters: erns, erst, nest, nets, nuns, nuts, rent, rest, rets, rues, rune, runs, runt, ruse, rust, ruts, sent, stun, suer, suet, sunn, sure, tens, tern, true, tune, tuns, turn, urns, user.

-4 letters: ens, ern, ers, net, nun.

+1 letter: neutrons, runniest, stunners, trunnels.

+2 letters: insurgent, neutrinos, nocturnes, nutrients, runtiness, saturnine, tunnelers, turnstone, unthrones.

+3 letters: centurions, continuers, encounters, encrusting, entrusting, indentures, instrument, insurgents, inurements, nonhunters, nutriments, reunionist, rotundness, sauntering, shotgunner, trienniums, truncheons, turnstones, underpants, understand, undertones, uninterest, unstrained, uraninites.

+4 letters: antinatures, aventurines, concurrents, counterions, countersign, countersink, countersunk, currentness, denaturants, entrustment, enunciators, innumerates, instruments, insurgently, interfusing, interfusion, interunions, interurbans, intravenous, mensuration, motoneurons, naturalness, neurotoxins, neutralness, nitrogenous, noncustomer, nonroutines, nourishment, numerations, nunciatures, nurturances, purtenances, quarantines, quaternions, rencounters, renunciates, reunionists, runtinesses, shotgunners, superintend, supernatant, supernation, tenpounders, tournaments, translucent, truepennies, turnvereins, turpentines, unabsorbent, undercounts, understands, uninterests, unobservant, unresistant, unresisting, unrestraint, untarnished.