stunning : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: stunning	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for stunning
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
stunning adj commanding attention; "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance" Synonym(s): arresting, sensational, stunning causing great astonishment and consternation; "the strike came as a stunning protest against management"; "a stunning defeat" 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" strikingly beautiful or attractive; "quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure"; "stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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[94]hnen, Icel. stynja, Gr. [?], Skr. stan to thunder, and E. thunder), or from the same source as E. astonish. [fb]168.] 1. To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head. One hung a poleax at his saddlebow, And one a heavy mace to stun the foe. --Dryden. 2. To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing. And stunned him with the music of the spheres. --Pope. 3. To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder. William was quite stunned at my discourse. --De Foe.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stunning \Stun"ning\, a. 1. Overpowering consciousness; overpowering the senses; especially, overpowering the sense of hearing; confounding with noise. 2. Striking or overpowering with astonishment, especially on account of excellence; as, stunning poetry. [Slang] --C. Kingsley. -- {Stun"ning*ly}, adv. [Slang]
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
stunning adj. Mind-bogglingly stupid. Usually used in sarcasm. "You want to code _what_ in ADA? That's a ... stunning idea!"