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Definition: Stunning |
StunningAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stunning" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Stunning adj. Mind-bogglingly stupid. Usually used in sarcasm. "You want to code _what_ in Ada? That's a ... stunning idea!". Source: Jargon File. |
Food & Agriculture | Any process which, when applied to an animal, causes immediate loss of consciousness which lasts until death. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A quarry worker's term for the formation of fractures caused by the cutting bars of a channeling machine striking the rock with excessivelyheavy blows. (references) |
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Synonyms: StunningSynonyms: arresting (adj), sensational (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Stunning |
| English words defined with "stunning": arresting ♦ common white dogwood, Cornus florida ♦ disclose ♦ eastern flowering dogwood, expose ♦ Faser ♦ sensational. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stunning": non-optimal solution. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Just because we have chiseled abs and stunning features, it doesn't mean that we too can't not die in a freak gasoline fight accident (Zoolander; writing credit: Drake Sather; Ben Stiller) Stunning! (The Smiling Lieutenant; writing credit: Henri Bataille; Felix Dormann) You're stunning. (Pretty Woman; writing credit: J.F. Lawton) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Stunning Cattle (1901) | |
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Consumer Goods | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | New Zealand is Stunning!. Credit: NASA. |  | A vibrant celestial photo album of some of NASA Hubble Space Telescope's most stunning views ... Credit: NASA. |
 | In this stunning picture of the giant galactic nebula NGC 3603, the Hubble telescope's crisp ... Credit: NASA. |  | A huge, billowing pair of gas and dust clouds is captured in this stunning Hubble telescope ... Credit: NASA. |
 | The Hubble Space Telescope continues to reveal various stunning and intricate treasures that ... Credit: NASA. |  | Stunning view of rock formation. Lakeview District. Credit: Terry Spivey. |
 | The Far Side. "Oh, Ginger - you look absoultely stunning ... and whatever you rolled in sure does stink" "I tell you, a crib is just plain worthless - what we need around here is a cardboard box" / Larson. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Great facade" by bizilagun design Commentary: "Stunning view of the facade of one of Madrid's famous buildings." | "Real or painted?" by Martin Kessel Commentary: "A stunning grasshopper in Austria. It never moved, even when I got up to about 3 cms from it.... Ricoh i-500 set to macro mode." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Some bought a pint and drank it fast to make the impact hard and stunning. |
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Business | Forecasts for mobile device use, particularly for WAP device use, are stunning. (references) | |
The rise of Chinese firms is perhaps the most stunning development in the area of application software. (references) | ||
This market produced stunning results, even though quantities of waste targeted for fuel mixing progressed at a slower rate as the price of fossil fuels dropped. (references) | ||
Economic History | Peru | Peru's 20th-century art is known for its extraordinary variety of styles and stunning originality. (references) |
Australia | The U.S. can offer the Australian traveler what they seek in a vacation destination, and with no language barriers, stunning scenery, good shopping, and a variety of entertainment facilities, the steady growth of Australian travelers to the U.S. should continue in the long term. (references) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
William Shatner | It's stunning. I don't know where the power switch is on the computer. I'm pretty ignorant about the technology. |
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| "Stunning" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.34% of the time. "Stunning" is used about 903 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.34% | 888 | 8,019 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 1.55% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 903 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "stunning": Myocardial Stunning. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "stunning": stunning-looking. | |
Ending with "stunning": mind-stunning, not-exactly-stunning, pre-stunning, scenically-stunning. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "stunning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shushatës (perplexing), trullosje (dazing, stupefaction, stupor), trullosës (heady). (various references) | |
Arabic | فاتن (alluring, attractive, breathtaking, captivating, catching, charming, cute, darling, enchanting, engaging, entrancing, exquisite, fascinating, glamorous, glamourous, likely, lovely, magic, magical, mesmeric, personable, philanderer, picturesque, pretty, ravishing, seducer, spellbinding, superb, sweet, tempter, thrilling, winning, winsome, zestful), مذهل (amazing, astonishing, astounding, baffling, bewildering, confusing, dumbfounding, prodigious, spectacular, staggering, startling, stupendous), مدهش (agape, amazing, astonishing, astounding, awesome, baffling, dandy, dumbfounding, marvellous, marvelous, out of this world, phenomenal, prodigious, ripping, staggering, startling, striking, surprising, topping, trembling, wonder, wonderful, wondrous), مدوخ, ساحر (attractive, bewitched, captivating, charming, conjuror, darling, ducky, enchanting, engaging, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, magic, magical, magnetic, magus, mesmeric, pleasant, prestigious, ravishing, taking, winning, winsome, zestful), رائع (admirable, bonny, brag, brave, conspicuous, dazzling, ducks, ducky, effective, elegant, emphatic, entrancing, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, felicitous, fine, glorious, gorgeous, grand, heavenly, in apple-pie order, irresistible, lovely, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, mighty, miraculous, noteworthy, out of this world, outstanding, palmy, picturesque, portentous, precious, prestigious, rattling, recherche, remarkable, ripening, ripping, sensational, showy, sightly, signal, singular, smash, smashing, solid, some, spanking, sparkling, splendid, stupendous, super, superb, swell, terrific, topping, tremendous, uncommon, wonder, wonderful, wondrous). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | смайващ (devastating, snorting, staggering, walloping), слисващ (breathtaking, stupendous), шокиращ (glaring, jarring), очарователен (adorable, alluring, bewitching, captivating, charming, darling, delightful, entrancing, fascinating, fetching, glamorous, glamourous, lovely, orphic, raving, ravishing, sweet, winning, winsome), зашеметяващ (staggering), поразително красив. (various references) | |
Chinese | 震惊 (Astound, Astounded, Astounding, Egregious, stun, stunned). (various references) | |
Czech | senzaèní (delicious, fine, gorgeous, grand, great, groovy, hot, magic, mean, sensational, smashing, startling, swell, terrific, thrilling, wonderful), oslòující (glamorous, glamourous, glaring), omraèující, ohromující (amazing, crippling, overwhelming). (various references) | |
Danish | bedoevelse, bedøvelse. (various references) | |
Dutch | bedwelmen (drug, intoxicate, stun, stupefy). (various references) | |
Finnish | tainnuttaminen, hemaiseva (gorgeous). (various references) | |
French | stupéfiant (staggering, stupefying), sensationnel, impressionnant, fantastique (stupendous), étourdissement (stun), étourdissant. (various references) | |
German | betäubung (anaesthesia, anaesthetization, anesthetic, anesthetization, daze, dazing, deadening, numbing, stupefaction, torpidity). (various references) | |
Greek | καταπληκτικόσ (amazing, astounding, prodigious, startling, striking, stupendous, tremendous), έκπαγλος (dazzling), γοητευτικός (captivating, charming, fascinating, spellbinding), ζάλισμα (bedevilment, stun), ζαλιστικόσ, εντυπωσιακός (impressive, sensational), αναισθητοποίηση (anaesthetization), θαυμάσιοσ (admirable, fabulous, marvellous, marvelous, prodigious, topping, wonderful). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקסים (catching, charming, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating, fetching, winning, winsome), מדהים (appalling, astounding, overwhelming, staggering, stupendous), המום (bewildering, confounding, frightening, shocked, slaphappy, stunned, thunderstruck). (various references) | |
Hungarian | elkábító, meglepő (astounding, dumfounding, earful, mind-bending, startler, startling, surprising). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bukan main (absurdly, excruciatingly, unbelievable). (various references) | |
Italian | stupendo (marvellous, marvelous, stupendous, terrific, wonderful, wondrous), stordimento (daze, stupefaction), assordante (deafening, din, numbing, stupefying). (various references) | |
Korean | 기절시킴. (various references) | |
Manx | kyrlogheyder (stunner). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | unningstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | invulgar (exceptional, extraordinary, fancy, heavy, king-size, rare, singular, strange, thundering, transcendent, unco, uncommon, unique, unknown, unusual, unwonted), esplêndido (bully, clipping, crack, famous, glorious, gorgeous, lovely, magnificent, nailing, noble, palmary, princely, ripping, scrumptious, splendid, splendiferous, superb, topping, wonderful), colossal (bloodcurdling, clinking, colossal, frabjous, gigantic, monster, monstrous, spanking, titanic, whacking, whopping), belíssimo (beautiful), atordoamento (lightheadedness), assombroso (amazing, astonishing, astounding, stupendous, surprising, wondrous). (various references) | |
Romanian | splendid (brilliant, exquisite, fine, glorious, gorgeous, grand, lofty, magnificent, noble, princely, proud, refulgent, resplendent, splendid, superb), uluitor (amazing, astounding, intriguing, mind-boggling), nãucitor, grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, bally, beastly, bully, classy, clinking, Dandy, desperate, dreadful, exceedingly, excessively, famous, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrible, horrid, immense, immensely, jolly, killing, like blazes, like hell, lovely, mad, magnificent, mightily, nicely, nifty, plush, plushy, proper, ripping, some, swell, terrible, terribly, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), copleşitor (overwhelming), ameţitor (astounding, deafening, dizzily, dizzy, giddy, intoxicating, potent, sensuous, staggering, vertiginous). (various references) | |
Russian | сногсшибательный (slapping, snorting), оглушающий, оглушать;ошеломлять ошеломляющий. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji ošamućuje (stunner), divan (admirable, adorable, davenport, delightful, delightsome, divan, divan bed, divine, dreamy, gorgeous, great, groovy, high-toned, jolly, lovely, magnificent, neat, nifty, scrumptious, sofa, splendid, superb, terrific). (various references) | |
Spanish | que aturde, pasmoso (amazing, astonishing, astounding, devastating, staggering, stupefying), maravilloso (amazing, blissful, Dandy, delighted, delightsome, divine, dreamy, dressy, engaging, gorgeous, heavenly, knockout, lead, magnificent, marvellous, marvelous, rare, well done, whimsical, wonderful, wondrous), estupendo (admirable, amazing, Dandy, divine, fabulous, fantastic, fantastical, first rate, grand, great, heavenly, hotstuff, jenny ass, marvellous, marvelous, neat, rare, rattling, ripping, socko, stupendous, super, super-duper, surprising, swell, terrific, wonderful, yippee), aturdido (abashed, bewildered, confound, confused, dopey, dopy, flurried, fuddled, headless, numbs, stunned, torpid). (various references) | |
Swedish | fantastisk (almighty, awe inspiring, awesome, big deal, breathtaking, cracking, divine, fab, fabulous, fanciful, fancy, fantastic, fantastical, far out, incredible, jolly, lovely, magnificent, perfect, raving, smashing, super, tall, terrific, tremendous, whimsical, wild-eyed, wizard, wonderful). (various references) | |
Turkish | serseme çeviren, nefis (ambrosial, awfully nice, beautiful, beyond praise, dainty, delectable, delicious, delightly, excellent, exquisite, fine, marvellous, marvelous, peachy, scrumptious, yummy, yum-yum), müthiş (almighty, appalling, awful, bang up, beastly, colossal, deadly, devastating, devilish, dire, direful, fabulous, fearful, filthy, formidable, frightful, gee-whiz, helluva, prodigious, ripping, smashing, splendid, splendiferous, stupendous, superb, swell, tearing, terrible, terrific, thundering, unco, wild), hayret verici (amazing, astonishing, astounding, bewildering, marvellous, marvelous, stupendous, surprising), çekici (alluring, appealing, attractive, bewitching, breakdown truck, breakdown van, captivating, catching, catchy, charismatic, charming, comely, desirable, endearing, engaging, engrossing, enthralling, fascinating, fetching, haul, haulier, inviting, juicy, magnetic, nubile, prepossessing, ravishing, sapid, seductive, sexy, spicy, taking, tempting, toothsome, tow truck, towing truck, tractive, tractor, winsome, witching, wrecker), çarpıcı (blazing, conspicuous, devastating, dramatic, flashy, intense, salient, showy, striking). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | незрівнянний (disparate, incomparable, matchless, peerless, rare, transcendent, unapproachable, unmatched, unparalleled), приголомшливий (appalling, astounding, fabulous, mindbending, overpowering, ripping, shocking, staggering, startling, way out). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | làm choáng váng (dizzy), hay (fine, grand, often, oftentimes, pretty, readable), cừ khôi (clinking, grand, hammer, keen, walloping). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stunning": stunningly. (additional references) | |
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"Stunning" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stenning. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stunning" (pronounced stu"ning) |
| 4 | -u" n i ng | cunning, Dunning, gunning, rerunning, running, shunning, sunning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | apportioning, abstaining, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, summoning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-n-n-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: sunning, tunings, tunning. | |
-2 letters: tuning. | |
-3 letters: sting, stung, suing, suint, tings, tungs, units, using. | |
-4 letters: gins, gist, gits, gnus, guns, gust, guts, inns, nits, nuns, nuts, sign, sing, snit, snug, stun, suit, sung, sunn, ting, tins, tugs, tuis, tung, tuns, unit. | |
-5 letters: gin, git, gnu, gun, gut, inn, ins, its, nit, nun, nus, nut, sin. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-n-n-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: cunningest, nonsuiting, outsinning, stunningly, unstinting. | |
+3 letters: insinuating, outspanning, shotgunning, unfastening, unstringing. | |
+4 letters: antihuntings, unstintingly. | |
+5 letters: consanguinity, discontinuing, insinuatingly, instrumenting, noncontagious, noncontiguous, nonlinguistic, understanding, uninteresting, unquestioning. | |
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