shocking
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
shocking
adj 1: glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism;
"lurid details of the accident" [syn: {lurid},
{shocking}]
2: giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to
reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally
shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most
shocking book of its time" [syn: {disgraceful}, {scandalous},
{shameful}, {shocking}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Shock \Shock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shocked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shocking}.] [OE. schokken; cf. D. schokken, F. choquer, Sp.
chocar. [root]161. Cf. {Chuck} to strike, {Jog}, {Shake},
{Shock} a striking, {Shog}, n. & v.]
1. To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to
strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence.
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Come the three corners of the world in arms,
And we shall shock them. --Shak.
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I shall never forget the force with which he shocked
De Vipont. --Sir W.
Scott.
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2. To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to
cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates.
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Advise him not to shock a father's will. --Dryden.
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3. (Physiol.) To subject to the action of an electrical
discharge so as to cause a more or less violent depression
or commotion of the nervous system.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
188 Moby Thesaurus words for "shocking":
abhorrent, abominable, abrupt, absolute, amazing, appalling,
arrant, astonishing, astounding, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome,
awful, baneful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beneath one,
blameworthy, brutal, burning, cheap, classical, complete,
consummate, contemptible, crass, crying, debasing, decided,
definitive, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, desperate,
despicable, detestable, dire, direful, disgraceful, disgusting,
distressing, downright, dread, dreaded, dreadful, egregious,
electrifying, enormous, fell, fetid, filthy, flagrant, formidable,
foul, frightful, fulsome, ghastly, ghoulish, glaring, grievous,
grim, grisly, gross, gruesome, gutter, hasty, hateful, headlong,
heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific,
horrifying, humiliating, humiliative, impetuous, impulsive,
infamous, infra dig, infra indignitatem, intolerable, jarring,
jolting, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, macabre, mind-blowing,
mind-boggling, monstrous, morbid, nasty, nauseating, nauseous,
nefarious, nerve-shattering, noisome, notorious, numbing,
obnoxious, odious, offensive, opprobrious, out-and-out, outrageous,
outright, perfect, pitiable, pitiful, positive, precious,
precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, profound, pronounced,
proper, quick, rank, redoubtable, regrettable, regular,
reprehensible, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scandalous,
schlock, schrecklich, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shattering, shoddy,
sickening, sordid, sorry, speedy, squalid, staggering, stark,
stark-staring, startling, striking, stunning, stupefying, sudden,
superlative, surpassing, surprising, swift, terrible, terrific,
the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, too bad, total, tragic,
tremendous, unanticipated, unbearable, unbecoming, unclean,
unconscionable, undeniable, unequivocal, unexpected, unforeseen,
unlooked-for, unmitigated, unpredicted, unqualified, unrelieved,
unspeakable, unspoiled, unworthy of one, utter, vile, villainous,
woeful, worst, worthless, wretched
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