Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Highly disturbing emotionally.
- adj. Highly offensive; indecent or distasteful.
- adj. Very vivid or intense in tone: shocking pink.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Causing a shock of indignation, disgust, distress, or horror; extremely offensive, painful, or repugnant.
- Synonyms Wicked, Scandalous, etc. (see atrocious), frightful, dreadful, terrible, revolting, abominable, execrable, appalling.
Wiktionary
- adj. Inspiring shock; startling
- adj. Unusually obscene or lewd
- adj. colloquial Extremely bad
- v. present participle of shock.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
- adj. giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
Examples
“It proposed a new national strategy to tackle what it called a "shocking state of affairs".”
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: U.N. and Red Cross Add to Outcry on Gaza War
“The International Committee of the Red Cross reported finding what it called shocking scenes on Wednesday, including four emaciated children next to the bodies of their dead mothers.”
OpEdNews - Quicklink: U.N. and Red Cross Add to Outcry on Gaza War
“It's a break from what he describes as the shocking news that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian and Muslim, stands accused of plotting to blow up an airliner.”
“The Department of Justice on Thursday received a tongue-lashing from Parliament's watchdog public accounts committee for what it called the shocking state of the department's financial accounts.”
“My first effort will be to reconcile you to what you call a shocking thing in our laws, and to show you how very shocking it would be (on the other hand), if slaves were allowed to give testimony against the whites.”
Uncle Robin, in his cabin in Virginia, and Tom without one in Boston
“Berlin film festival is condemning what it calls the shocking …”
“Duchess of Cambridge to visit famine-hit areas of East Africa The Duchess of Cambridge has disclosed plans to visit famine-hit areas of East Africa to draw attention to what she described as the "shocking" plight of starving children.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“The Afghan Ministry of Defense also condemned the actions in the video, which it described as "shocking.”
“GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - The United Nations will quickly raise money for emergency repairs in the Gaza Strip, the world body's humanitarian chief promised Thursday after witnessing what he called shocking destruction from the three-week war between Israel and Hamas.”
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
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macabre
words associated with the macabre & horror.
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Pink
hot pink, fuchsia, magenta, lavender, cherry blossom, amaranth, cerise, coral, salmon, shocking, pig
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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Apples to Apples: Green Cards
A complete list of the green cards (adjectives) from the popular word game.
absurd, addictive, adorable, aged, American, ancient, animated, annoying, appetizing, arrogant, awesome, awkward and 237 more...
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abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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splendid, epistemic, archaic, anachronistic, misanthrope, cyclic, didactic, encrusted, archetypal, symbiotic, recitatif, viviparous and 55 more...
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To Marji
compote, baker, pie, traveller, nurse, mother hen, executive, berkeley, seattle, friend, denver, punctilious and 55 more...
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KTisms
lithe, svelte, naive, nubile, heathen, godless, shocking, canulation
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