What is another word for shocking?
641 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ʃˈɒkɪŋ], [ ʃˈɒkɪŋ], [ ʃ_ˈɒ_k_ɪ_ŋ]
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Similar words for shocking:
- all (adjective)
- amazed (adjective)
- amazing (adjective)
- appalling (adjective)
- astounding (adjective)
- atrocious (adjective)
- awesome (adjective)
- desperate (adjective)
- detestable (adjective)
- diabolic (adjective)
- different (adjective)
- dire (adjective)
- direful (adjective)
- disgraceful (adjective)
- disgusting (adjective)
- disreputable (adjective)
- dreadful (adjective)
- egregious (adjective)
- fearful (adjective)
- fearsome (adjective)
- flagrant (adjective)
- frightening (adjective)
- frightful (adjective)
- ghastly (adjective)
- grievous (adjective)
- grim (adjective)
- grisly (adjective)
- gross (adjective)
- gruesome (adjective)
- hair-raising (adjective)
- hideous (adjective)
- horrible (adjective)
- horrible/horrendous/horrid (adjective)
- improper (adjective)
- incommunicable (adjective)
- indecent (adjective)
- indefinable (adjective)
- inexpressible (adjective)
- infamous (adjective)
- low (adjective)
- obscene (adjective)
- offensive (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- outrageous (adjective)
- outrageous; very surprising (adjective)
- plunging (adjective)
- preposterous (adjective)
- scabrous (adjective)
- scandalous (adjective)
- scary (adjective)
- sensational (adjective)
- shameful (adjective)
- shocked (adjective)
- staggering (adjective)
- startling (adjective)
- surprising (adjective)
- terrible (adjective)
- terrific (adjective)
- tragic (adjective)
- undescribable (adjective)
- ungodly (adjective)
- unheard-of (adjective)
- unholy (adjective)
- unspeakable (adjective)
- unutterable (adjective)
- vile (adjective)
- woeful (adjective)
- agriculture (noun)
- immoral (noun)
- sensational (noun)
- alarming (verb)
- disappointing (verb)
- displeasing (verb)
- surprising (verb)
- other synonyms
- disgusting
- marvelous
Synonyms for Shocking:
adj.
• all (adjective) • amazed (adjective) • amazing (adjective) • appalling (adjective)- dis-maying,
- dis maying,
- most scaring,
- more petrifying,
- more daunting,
- grodier,
- more disheartening,
- Ender,
- endest,
- more dismaying,
- most dismaying,
- un nerving,
- dis heartening,
- most daunting,
- most disheartening,
- dis-heartening,
- most petrifying,
- more unnerving,
- most unnerving,
- un-nerving,
- more scaring,
- grodiest.
- mind blowing,
- over-whelming,
- over whelming,
- more confounding,
- mindblowing,
- mind boggling,
- most confounding,
- eyepopping,
- most stupefying,
- more stupefying,
- mindboggling,
- eye popping.
- impressive,
- most horrifying,
- awe inspiring,
- grandest,
- aweinspiring,
- more nervous,
- striking,
- more horrifying.
- headstrong,
- in-cautious,
- head strong,
- head long,
- more death-defying,
- risky,
- more death defying,
- devil may care,
- most death defying,
- death defying,
- headlong,
- deathdefying,
- most precipitate,
- in cautious,
- most death-defying,
- most deathdefying,
- head-long,
- more deathdefying.
- de-monic,
- de monic,
- most demoniac,
- most mephistophelian,
- more demoniac,
- un hallowed,
- more mephistophelian.
- more oppressing,
- un-fortunate,
- portentous,
- most oppressing,
- more scowling,
- most scowling,
- re-doubtable,
- re doubtable,
- un fortunate,
- ruinous.
- dis creditable,
- de-grading,
- de grading,
- un worthiest,
- dis-honorable,
- shady,
- un worthier,
- dis-creditable,
- un respectable,
- un-worthier,
- more unrespectable,
- shoddy,
- un worthy,
- dis honorable,
- opprobrious,
- in glorious,
- in-glorious,
- un-worthiest,
- un-respectable,
- dis-graceful,
- most unrespectable,
- un-worthy,
- dis graceful.
- most satiating,
- yecchier,
- scuzziest,
- dis-gusting,
- more cloying,
- more sleazeball,
- nerdier,
- yecchiest,
- dis-tasteful,
- scuzzier,
- yucky,
- dis tasteful,
- more satiating,
- nerdiest,
- dis gusting,
- more surfeiting,
- most sleazeball,
- objectionable,
- shameless,
- most surfeiting.
- in the doghouse,
- dis-orderly,
- dis orderly,
- de-rogatory,
- dis-solute,
- in bad,
- dis-reputable,
- de rogatory,
- scurvier,
- in low esteem,
- scurvy,
- no good,
- un-principled,
- dis solute,
- scurviest,
- un principled,
- dis reputable,
- in doghouse.
- sub lime,
- un-earthly,
- un earthlier,
- un earthly,
- un earthliest,
- un-earthliest,
- sub-lime,
- un-earthlier.
- noticeable,
- stick out like sore thumb,
- blatant,
- stark,
- ostentatious,
- undisguised,
- flagitous,
- bare-faced,
- out and out,
- glaring.
- more wraithlike,
- un cannier,
- un-cannier,
- most corpselike,
- un canniest,
- ghostly,
- un-natural,
- un-canniest,
- more mortuary,
- super natural,
- most mortuary,
- most wraithlike,
- un canny,
- more corpselike,
- un-canny,
- super-natural.
- more heart-rending,
- most wounding,
- heart rending,
- up setting,
- up-setting,
- more afflicting,
- most afflicting,
- more wounding,
- most heart rending,
- dis-quieting,
- un bearable,
- more heart rending,
- dis quieting,
- un-bearable,
- most heart-rending.
- fore-boding,
- stern,
- un relenting,
- more splenetic,
- in-tractable,
- in tractable,
- more foreboding,
- forbidding,
- in exorable,
- more glowering,
- re solute,
- un-relenting,
- splenetic,
- most glowering,
- most splenetic,
- fore boding,
- re-solute,
- most foreboding,
- un yielding,
- un-yielding,
- most crabbed,
- in-exorable.
- off color,
- offcolor,
- un seemly,
- more undecorous,
- xrated,
- un seemlier,
- in-delicate,
- more illbred,
- more ill bred,
- x rated,
- un-seemlier,
- un-seemliest,
- un-becoming,
- most undecorous,
- most illbred,
- un decorous,
- in-decorous,
- more ill-bred,
- most ill-bred,
- in decorous,
- un seemliest,
- ill bred,
- indecent,
- un becoming,
- most ill bred,
- in delicate,
- in decent,
- in-decent,
- un-decorous.
- more illfamed,
- un healthy,
- un healthiest,
- in famous,
- un-healthy,
- more ill famed,
- most ill-famed,
- un-healthiest,
- in-famous,
- un healthier,
- de-generate,
- illfamed,
- more caitiff,
- most illfamed,
- ill famed,
- more ill-famed,
- most caitiff,
- infamous,
- de generate,
- most ill famed.
- fearful,
- grody,
- appalling,
- diabolic,
- shuddersome,
- direful,
- atrocious,
- horrible,
- obscene,
- gruesome,
- terrible,
- red hot,
- flagrant,
- illbred,
- hideous,
- awful,
- godawful,
- demoniac,
- outrageous,
- corpselike,
- disgusting,
- ill-bred,
- woeful,
- sickie,
- surprising,
- startling,
- sleazeball,
- ill-famed,
- tragic,
- head-strong,
- ghastly,
- yecchy,
- rank,
- ungodly,
- amazing,
- zero cool,
- wraithlike,
- out-standing,
- taking the cake,
- anguished,
- percussive,
- detestable,
- undecorous,
- scuzzy,
- nerdy,
- preposterous,
- grim,
- shameful,
- real gone,
- dreadful,
- something else,
- the end,
- defying description,
- in bad taste,
- grievous,
- revolting,
- scary,
- formidable,
- dire,
- out of question,
- disgraceful,
- hair-raising,
- disreputable,
- heart-rending,
- terrific,
- ugly,
- desperate,
- un-hallowed,
- death-defying,
- vile,
- unrespectable.
- in-human,
- in human,
- dis-gracing,
- un civilized,
- more shaming,
- de-basing,
- out bounds,
- more depraving,
- most shaming,
- un-civilized,
- most depraving,
- dis gracing,
- un conscionable,
- more debauching,
- de basing,
- most debasing,
- most debauching,
- un-conscionable,
- un reasonable,
- more disgracing,
- most disgracing,
- un-reasonable,
- more debasing.
- disquieting,
- loathsome,
- repulsive,
- distressing,
- nauseating,
- abominable,
- stupefying,
- scandalous,
- crying,
- horrific,
- foul,
- hateful,
- odious,
- burning,
- sickening,
- horrifying.
- in sanest,
- un-thinkable,
- un usual,
- farout,
- in-saner,
- in sane,
- un-usual,
- taking cake,
- out the question,
- in saner,
- out question,
- un thinkable,
- in-sane.
- more traducing,
- more maligning,
- libelous,
- un truest,
- most gossiping,
- most backbiting,
- most traducing,
- more gossiping,
- de tractive,
- most maligning,
- de-tractive,
- most detracting,
- more detracting,
- more vilifying,
- un-truer,
- un-truest,
- un truer,
- most vilifying,
- more backbiting.
- most sensationalistic,
- tabloid,
- most tabloid,
- most revealing,
- more tabloid,
- out standing,
- more revealing,
- more sensationalistic,
- sensationalistic.
- more appalled,
- most percussive,
- most jarred,
- more percussive,
- more dismayed,
- more astonished,
- most astonished,
- dis-mayed,
- most dismayed,
- most appalled,
- more jarred,
- dis mayed.
- without warning,
- sudden,
- extra ordinary,
- unpredicted,
- unforeseen,
- from left field,
- unanticipated,
- unexpected,
- astonishing.
- inconvenient,
- un-welcome,
- in convenient,
- more dreaded,
- in-convenient,
- un welcome,
- unwelcome,
- most dreaded.
n.
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•
- poor,
- second-rate,
- embarrassing,
- low-grade,
- pitiful.
v.
• alarming (verb) • disappointing (verb) • displeasing (verb) • surprising (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- usual.
How to use "Shocking" in context?
ocean acidification
The world's oceans are acidic, but a new report finds that they are becoming more acidic faster than at any time in the past 800,000 years. The report, "A Safe Haven for Humanity? The Impact of Ocean Acidification on Marine Life," was released on December 8, 2016, by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. "The rapid rise in ocean acidity is one of the most important environmental challenges of our time," said Christina Haring-Schuster, report co-author and director UNESCO World Heritage Maritime Centre.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
appalling.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
abhorrent, alarmed, blatant, breathtaking, confusing, creepy, depressing, dire, disastrous, disgraceful, disgusting, disquieting, distasteful, dramatic, eerie, embarrassing, extraordinary, eye-catching, glaring, grim, grotesque, hideous, horrid, humiliating, impressive, iniquitous, insulting, intimidating, nasty, obscene, odd, overwhelming, painful, phenomenal, remarkable, repulsive, sickening, spectacular, strange, terrific, tremendous, troubling, ugly, unbelievable, unheard, unpleasant, unspeakable, vivid, worrisome, worrying, unsettling, impactful, jaw-dropping.
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Noun, singular or mass
impressive.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
astonishing, astounding, surprising.
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Other Related
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Adjective
alarming, astonishing, astounding, atrocious, awful, chilling, daunting, devastating, disconcerting, distressing, disturbing, dreadful, egregious, exciting, frightening, ghastly, gruesome, harrowing, heinous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, objectionable, outrageous, perplexing, puzzling, repugnant, revolting, scandalous, scary, shameful, shocked, staggering, startling, striking, stunning, surprising, terrible, terrifying, tragic, upsetting.
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Noun, singular or mass
shameful.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
distressing.
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Adjective
Homophones for Shocking:
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