shocking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɒkɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ

Adjective

shocking (comparative more shocking, superlative most shocking)

1. Inspiring shock; startling.
2. Unusually obscene or lewd.
3. (colloquial) Extremely bad.

   What a shocking calamity!

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:surprising

Translations

inspiring shock; startling

• Arabic: صَادِم (ṣādim)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: шакава́льны (šakaválʹny), шакі́руючы (šakírujučy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 觸目驚心／触目惊心 (zh) (chùmùjīngxīn), 触目惊心 (zh) (chùmù jīngxīn)

• Esperanto: ŝoka
• Finnish: järkyttävä (fi), kauhistuttava (fi)
• French: choquant (fr), offensant (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: schrecklich (de), schockierend (de)
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• Hebrew: מדהים, מזעזע, מהמם
• Italian: sconvolgente (it)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: chocante (pt)
• Romanian: șocant (ro) m or n
• Russian: потряса́ющий (ru) (potrjasájuščij), ужаса́ющий (ru) (užasájuščij), шоки́рующий (ru) (šokírujuščij)
• Spanish: espantoso, chocante
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: шоку́ючий (šokújučyj)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

unusually obscene or lewd

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: tyrmistyttävä (fi)
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• French: choquant (fr), offensant (fr)
• Russian: непристо́йный (ru) (nepristójnyj)
• Spanish: aberrante (es)

extremely bad

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: kaamea (fi), karmea (fi), hirveä (fi)
• French: choquant (fr)
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• German: schrecklich (de)
• Hebrew: מְזַעֲזֵעַ
• Russian: отврати́тельный (ru) (otvratítelʹnyj), га́дкий (ru) (gádkij)
• Spanish: horrible (es)

Verb

shocking

1. present participle of shock

Noun

shocking (plural shockings)

1. The application of an electric shock.
   • 2005, Will Tuttle, The World Peace Diet:

     We terrorize millions of vulnerable and defenseless animals daily with painful shockings, beatings, brandings, […]

Anagrams

• Hockings, chokings