Stunning vs Excellent - What's the difference?
stunning | excellent |
Having an effect that stuns.
Exceptionally beautiful or attractive.
Amazing (very good).
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Of the highest quality; splendid.
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Exceptionally good of its kind.
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*(David Hume) (1711-1776)
*:an excellent hypocrite
*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
*:Their sorrows are most excellent .
(obsolete) Excellently.
*, New York Review Books 2001, p.287:
As adjectives the difference between stunning and excellent
is that stunning is having an effect that stuns while excellent is of the highest quality; splendid.As a verb stunning
is .As an adverb excellent is
(obsolete) excellently.stunning
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The stunning jolt from the taser gun made the criminal stop fleeing.
- That woman is stunning !
- The film was stunning .
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Verb
(head)excellent
English
(wikipedia excellent)Adjective
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Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* excellence * excellently * excellentnessAdverb
(en adverb)- Lucian, in his tract de Mercede conductis , hath excellent well deciphered such men's proceedings in his picture of Opulentia […].
