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