1. Strikingly beautiful or attractive
   "quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure"; "stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"
    
2. Commanding attention
   "a stunning performance";
   - arresting, sensational
    
3. Causing great astonishment and consternation
   "the strike came as a stunning protest against management"; "a stunning defeat"
    
4. 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"

1. Make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
   "stun fish";
   - stupefy
    
2. Hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
   "The unexpected news stunned the investors";
   - sandbag
    
3. Overcome as with astonishment or disbelief
   "The news stunned her";
   - bedaze, daze

See also: beautiful, disorienting, impressive, surprising

Type of: desensitise [Brit], desensitize, hit, immobilise [Brit], immobilize

Encyclopedia: Stunning