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stunning
adjective
strikingly beautiful or attractive
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adjective
strikingly beautiful or attractive
“quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure”
adjective
commanding attention
“an arresting drawing of people turning into animals”
adjective
causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility
“laid the poor fellow senseless with one stunning blow”
adjective
causing great astonishment and consternation
“the strike came as a stunning protest against management”
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quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure
stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas
an arresting drawing of people turning into animals
a sensational concert — one never to be forgotten
a stunning performance
laid the poor fellow senseless with one stunning blow
a stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke
the strike came as a stunning protest against management
a stunning defeat
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