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Stunning vs Gripping - What's the difference?

stunning | gripping |

As adjectives the difference between stunning and gripping

is that stunning is having an effect that stuns while gripping is catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating.

As verbs the difference between stunning and gripping

is that stunning is while gripping is .

As a noun gripping is

(pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines).

stunning

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having an effect that stuns.
    • The stunning jolt from the taser gun made the criminal stop fleeing.
  • Exceptionally beautiful or attractive.
    • That woman is stunning !
  • Amazing (very good).
    • The film was stunning .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=So it was against the run of play that their London rivals took the lead two minutes before the interval through Drogba. He rolled William Gallas inside the area before flashing a stunning finish high past keeper Carlo Cudicini.}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • gripping

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines)
  • * 1727 , Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies
    • The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite