Synonyms: stunning
Definition: strikingly beautiful or attractive
Usage: quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure; stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas
Similar words: beautiful
Definition: delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
Usage: a beautiful child; beautiful country; a beautiful painting; a beautiful theory; a beautiful party
Synonyms: arresting, stunning, sensational
Definition: commanding attention
Usage: an arresting drawing of people turning into animals; a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten; a stunning performance
Similar words: impressive
Definition: making a strong or vivid impression
Usage: an impressive ceremony
Synonyms: stunning
Definition: causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility
Usage: laid the poor fellow senseless with one stunning blow; a stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke
Similar words: disorienting
Definition: causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings
Usage: making so many turns to the right and then the left was completely disorienting; a sharp blow to the head can be disorienting
Synonyms: stunning
Definition: causing great astonishment and consternation
Usage: the strike came as a stunning protest against management; a stunning defeat
Similar words: surprising
Definition: causing surprise or wonder or amazement
Usage: the report shows a surprising lack of hard factual data; leaped up with surprising agility; she earned a surprising amount of money