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stunner

stunner noun: anything that is stunning.

Noun

stunner (plural stunners)

  1. (colloquial) Anything that is stunning.
    1. (colloquial) A woman or man of stunning beauty or handsomeness (often hyperbolic), a knockout.
      • She's a runner, rebel and a stunner / On her merry way sayin', "Baby, what you gonna—?"2006, “Dani California”, in Stadium Arcadium, performed by Red Hot Chili Peppers
  2. A professional wrestling maneuver in which an attacking wrestler applies a facelock to an opponent and falls to a seated position, forcing the opponent's jaw or neck to drop on the attacker's shoulder.
  3. A pistol firing a beam capable of stunning an enemy.
    • March holstered his pistol, reached into his coat, and drew out his own neural stunner, shifting the weapon to his right hand.2018, Jonathan Moeller, Silent Order: Omnibus One
  4. A person or machine that stuns an animal before slaughter.

stunner meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

stunner in Tamil

அதிர்வூட்டுநர்

stunner in Malayalam

beauty, beautiful woman, belle
സുന്ദരി, അതിസുന്ദരി, രൂപവതി, അഴക്, ഏഴഴകുള്ളവൾ, സൗന്ദര്യധാമം

Forms of stunner

pluralstunners

Plural of stunner: stunners

Origin of stunner

From stun + -er.

Words formed from stunner

Words that rhyme with stunner

Questions about stunner

What does stunner mean?
Stunner means anything that is stunning.
What is stunner in Tamil?
Stunner in Tamil is அதிர்வூட்டுநர். See Stunner meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stunner?
Stunner is a noun.
What is the plural of stunner?
The plural of stunner is stunners.

Words near stunner in the dictionary

  1. stunlocks
  2. stunna
  3. stunnable
  4. stunnas
  5. stunned
  6. stunner
  7. stunners
  8. stunning
  9. stunning and brave
  10. stunningly
  11. stunningness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stunner (page history and authors); stunner (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stunner (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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