- arresting, sensational, stunning - commanding attention; "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance"
Antonym: unimpressive (indirect, via impressive)
- stunning - causing great astonishment and consternation; "the strike came as a stunning protest against management"; "a stunning defeat"
Antonym: unsurprising (indirect, via surprising)
- stunning - 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"
Antonyms: orienting, orientating (indirect, via disorienting)
- stunning - strikingly beautiful or attractive; "quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure"; "stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"
Antonym: ugly (indirect, via beautiful)
- stun, stupefy - make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish"
--1 is one way to immobilize, immobilise
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- shock, stun, floor, ball over, blow out of the water, take aback - surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"
--2 is one way to surprise
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun stunner2
The bad news will stun him
The good news will stun her
The performance is likely to stun Sue
- sandbag, stun - hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag
--3 is one way to hit
Sample sentence:
The fighter managed to stun his opponent
- stun, bedaze, daze - overcome as with astonishment or disbelief; "The news stunned her"
--4 is one way to desensitize, desensitise
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun stunner1
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody