SHOCKING


Meaning of SHOCKING in English

I. adjective

Etymology: from present participle of shock (IV)

1. : causing to shake or tremble : stunning

repeated shocking blows to the head — W.A.D.Anderson

2. : extremely startling and offensive : novel and distasteful through being or appearing immoral, horrifying, immoderate, reprehensible

persons of old-fashioned views might regard this as a very shocking admission — Rebecca West

solecism of this kind … would have seemed a shocking thing to so accurate a scholar — L.P.Smith

3. : having a color tone that is striking, vivid, bright, or intense

shocking pink

Synonyms: see fearful

II. adverb

: shockingly

a shocking bad orator and altogether deficient in humanity — Norman Douglas

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.