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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHOCK'ING, ppr.
1. Shaking with sudden violence.
2. Meeting in onset or violent encounter.
And now with shouts the shocking armies clos'd. Pope.
3. a. Striking, as with horror; causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting.
The French humor- is very shocking to the Italians. Addison.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident" [syn: lurid, shocking]
2: giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time" [syn: disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shocking]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1655 extremely startling, distressing, or offensive <shocking news> • shockingly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & adv. --adj. 1 causing indignation or disgust. 2 colloq. very bad (shocking weather). --adv. colloq. shockingly (shocking bad manners). Phrases and idioms: shocking pink a vibrant shade of pink. Derivatives: shockingly adv. shockingness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shock Shock, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shocked; p. pr. & vb. n. Shocking.] [OE. schokken; cf. D. schokken, F. choquer, Sp. chocar. [root]161. Cf. Chuck to strike, Jog, Shake, Shock a striking, Shog, n. & v.] 1. To give a shock to; to cause to shake or waver; hence, to strike against suddenly; to encounter with violence. Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. --Shak. I shall never forget the force with which he shocked De Vipont. --Sir W. Scott. 2. To strike with surprise, terror, horror, or disgust; to cause to recoil; as, his violence shocked his associates. Advise him not to shock a father's will. --Dryden.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shocking Shock"ing, a. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. You can say that something is shocking if you think that it is very bad. (INFORMAL) The media coverage was shocking... = appalling ADJ • shockingly His memory was becoming shockingly bad. ADV: ADV adj/adv 2. You can say that something is shocking if you think that it is morally wrong. It is shocking that nothing was said... ADJ: oft it v-link ADJ that/to-inf • shockingly Shockingly, this useless and dangerous surgery did not end until the 1930s. ADV 3. see also shock

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Repulsive, offensive, hateful, detestable, execrable, obnoxious, odious, disgusting, revolting, repugnant, disgraceful, loathsome, foul, abominable. 2. Dreadful, terrible, horrid, horrible, fearful, frightful, dire, horrific, awful, tremendous, hideous, monstrous, ghastly, grim, appalling.

Moby Thesaurus

abhorrent, abominable, abrupt, absolute, amazing, appalling, arrant, astonishing, astounding, atrocious, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, baneful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beneath one, blameworthy, brutal, burning, cheap, classical, complete, consummate, contemptible, crass, crying, debasing, decided, definitive, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, desperate, despicable, detestable, dire, direful, disgraceful, disgusting, distressing, downright, dread, dreaded, dreadful, egregious, electrifying, enormous, fell, fetid, filthy, flagrant, formidable, foul, frightful, fulsome, ghastly, ghoulish, glaring, grievous, grim, grisly, gross, gruesome, gutter, hasty, hateful, headlong, heinous, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, humiliating, humiliative, impetuous, impulsive, infamous, infra dig, infra indignitatem, intolerable, jarring, jolting, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, macabre, mind-blowing, mind-boggling, monstrous, morbid, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, nerve-shattering, noisome, notorious, numbing, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opprobrious, out-and-out, outrageous, outright, perfect, pitiable, pitiful, positive, precious, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous, profound, pronounced, proper, quick, rank, redoubtable, regrettable, regular, reprehensible, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sad, scandalous, schlock, schrecklich, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shattering, shoddy, sickening, sordid, sorry, speedy, squalid, staggering, stark, stark-staring, startling, striking, stunning, stupefying, sudden, superlative, surpassing, surprising, swift, terrible, terrific, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, too bad, total, tragic, tremendous, unanticipated, unbearable, unbecoming, unclean, unconscionable, undeniable, unequivocal, unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked-for, unmitigated, unpredicted, unqualified, unrelieved, unspeakable, unspoiled, unworthy of one, utter, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched