stunned

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I'm just stunned their data is as good as it is.

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filled with the emotional impact of overwhelming surprise or shock; "an amazed audience gave the magician a standing ovation"; "I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral"; "astounded viewers wept at the pictures from the Oklahoma City bombing"; "stood in stunned silence"; "stunned scientists found not one but at least three viruses"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

knocked unconscious by a heavy blow

adjective

in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was stupid from fatigue"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stunned.

adjective

See also: amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded

adjective

knocked unconscious by a heavy blow

adjective

in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was stupid from fatigue"

Example sentences

I'm just stunned their data is as good as it is.

I mean, I'm just stunned people aren't begging for these jobs.

They were stunned by the 6 & 7 figure price tags and 2 year project timelines.

[edit: After further reflection, I'm stunned by how well they pulled this off.

I was just stunned the company wanted to bitch about $4 when I gave them 9 hours of my Saturday.

Even while looking for these I was stunned how many freaking awesome works are out there in the PD.

This stunned Weeks, who was good-humored and confident but not used to Jobss reality distortion field.

Continuously stunned by the general acceptance of the public to the right of secrecy of those entrusted with the power of life and death over them.

But that doesn't mean that the ancient Egyptians used to waste hours staring into newly-emptied buckets and baskets in stunned amazement, murmuring "what on earth is that" to themselves in Coptic.