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say it: STUHN-ing
stunning is an adjective meaning "commanding attention". It is pronounced /ˈstʌnɪŋ/ — STUHN-ing. It carries 4 recorded senses.
commanding attention
“an arresting drawing of people turning into animals”
“a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten”
“a stunning performance”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stunning come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.