Synonyms for stunning
- adjective
Most common
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Wonderful
beautiful, wonderful, astonishing, sensational, awesome, glorious, striking, excellent, first-rate, surprising, fine, out of sight, stupefying, arresting, divine, heavenly, dandy, bully
Other
hot, loud, comely formal, overpowering
Definitions
- adj. 1
Having an effect that stuns.
The stunning jolt from the taser gun made the criminal stop fleeing.
Related words
- Word family
- stunningly
Example sentences
- awesome I developed an aversion toward the word "awesome".
- wonderful The music we listened to last night was wonderful.
- astonishing It's astonishing how fluently Bill spoke Japanese.
- sensational This Kabyle dress does look sensational on Taninna.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| stunning | rising | |
| awesome | rising | |
| wonderful | rising | |
| astonishing | steady | |
| sensational | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- hot1
- 4 letters
- fine1, loud1
- 5 letters
- bully2, dandy2
- 6 letters
- divine2, comely2
- 7 letters
- awesome2
- 8 letters
- striking2, glorious3, heavenly3
- 9 letters
- beautiful3, wonderful3, excellent3, arresting3
- 10 letters
- surprising3, stupefying
- 11 letters
- astonishing4, sensational4
- 12 letters
- overpowering4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bully2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- étourdissant
- Deutsch
- betäubend