Advertisement
Advertisement
shocking
adjective as in outrageous; very surprising
Strongest matches
appalling, awful, disgraceful, disgusting, disquieting, distressing, dreadful, ghastly, heinous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, shameful, terrible, ugly
Strong matches
burning, crying, foul, glaring, nauseating, revolting, sickening, stupefying
Weak matches
abominable, atrocious, desperate, detestable, direful, fearful, formidable, frightful, hateful, hideous, loathsome, monstrous, odious, offensive, repulsive, scandalous, unspeakable
Example Sentences
"You know those red lasers that come out of those guns? It was so shocking that some people were shivering in fear."
“It was shocking, but there was nothing I could do,” she tells me from her art-filled home.
"Sometimes they'd let the guard dog off its leash so that it could bite us. The cruelty was really shocking and it was constant."
“We learned some shocking things when we spoke to his family and friends,” Patel said in the interview.
They hadn’t been inside long when it took two direct hits from lightning, knocking one occupant unconscious and badly shocking two others.
Advertisement
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse