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.