Word Meanings - SHOCKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting. The grossest and most shocking villainies. Secker. -- Shock"ing*ly, adv. -- Shock"ing*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHOCKING)

• Dreadful
• Fearful
• shocking
• monstrous
• dire
• terrible
• frightful
• terrific
• horrible
• alarming
• awful
• Timid
• hesitating
• apprehensive
• afraid
• dreadful
• Formidable
• Awful
• terrifying
• discouraging
• serious
• appalling
• fearful
• Frightful
• Terrible
• ugly
• hideous
• direful
• horrid
• Ghastly
• Deathlike
• grim
• cadaverous
• spectral
• pallid

Related words: (words related to SHOCKING)

• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• DISCOURAGING
  Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
• APPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality or state of being apprehensive.
• HESITATION
  1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. Swift.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• GHASTLY
  gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear, fr. gasten to terrify, AS. 1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized.
• FEARFULNESS
  The state of being fearful.
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• CADAVEROUS
  1. Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look. 2. Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body. "The scent cadaverous." -- Ca*dav"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Ca*dav"er*ous*ness, n.
• PALLIDNESS
  The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.
• HORRIDLY
  In a horrid manner. Shak.
• HORRIDNESS
  The quality of being horrid.
• ALARM
  1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
• SPECTRAL
  Of or pertaining to the spectrum; made by the spectrum; as, spectral colors; spectral analysis. Spectral lemur. See Tarsius. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a specter; ghosty. He that feels timid at the spectral form of evil is not the man
• DISCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
• APPALL
  1. To make pale; to blanch. The answer that ye made to me, my dear, . . . Hath so appalled my countenance. Wyatt. 2. To weaken; to enfeeble; to reduce; as, an old appalled wight. Chaucer. Whine, of its own nature, will not congeal and freeze, only
• HESITATINGLY
  With hesitation or doubt.
• DREADFUL
  1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. "With dreadful heart." Chaucer. 2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth. 3.
• SHOCK-HEADED
  Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
• IMPALLID
  To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham.
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS
• FATIMITE; FATIMIDE
  Descended from Fatima, the daughter and only child of Mohammed. -- n.