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shocking
Synonyms and Antonyms of shocking
- we all clustered around to hear the shocking news of our colleague's sudden death
unannounced, unanticipated, unexpected, unforeseen
awesome, awful, breathtaking, fabulous, heart-stopping, marvelous (or marvellous), miraculous, portentous, prodigious, staggering, stupendous, sublime, wonderful, wondrous
extraordinary, phenomenal, rare, sensational, spectacular
befuddling, bewildering, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, dismaying, flustering, muddling, nonplussing (also nonplusing), perplexing, upsetting
incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, unbelievable, unimaginable, unlikely, unthinkable
singular, uncommon, unique, unusual, unwonted
- the shocking appearance of a shark just a few yards off shore
daunting, demoralizing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, startling, threatening, troubling, trying, unnerving
bone-chilling, creepy, eerie (also eery), weird
appalling, atrocious, awful, grisly, gruesome (also grewsome), hideous, horrid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarish
- the shocking behavior of some rowdies at the dance
abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, disgusting, distasteful, dreadful, evil, foul, fulsome, gross, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, rancid, repellent (also repellant), repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scandalous, sickening, ugly
brackish, disagreeable, dislikable (also dislikeable), unpleasant
contemptible, despicable, detestable, hard, hateful
unhealthy, unsavory, unwholesome
atrocious, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome (also grewsome), heinous, horrific, horrifying, lurid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarish, sick, sickish, sickly, terrible, unspeakable, vile
off-putting, undesirable, unwanted, unwelcome
acceptable, agreeable, alluring, appealing, attractive, blessed (also blest), congenial, darling, delectable, delicious, delightful, delightsome, desirable, dreamy, dulcet, enjoyable, felicitous, gratifying, heavenly, inviting, likable (or likeable), luscious, nice, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, satisfying, savory (also savoury), sweet, welcome
unexceptionable, unobjectionable
healthful, healthy, restorative, salubrious, salutary, wholesome
- a soldier who had witnessed the shocking sight of his best friend being killed
alarming, bloodcurdling, dire, direful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, gut-wrenching, hair-raising, heart-stopping, intimidating, redoubtable, scary, terrifying
abhorrent, deplorable, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening
abominable, evil, foul, heinous, noxious, odious, unspeakable, vile
Synonyms and Antonyms of shocking
- Mom was shocked by the terrible news that her cousin had died in an accident
- I was shocked to find out that I was the victim of identity theft
astonishing, bowling over, dumbfounding (also dumfounding), flabbergasting, freaking (out), stunning, stupefying
affrighting, alarming (also alaruming), dismaying, frightening, frighting, horrifying, panicking, scarifying, scaring, spooking, startling, terrifying, terrorizing
disgusting, nauseating, repelling, revolting, sickening, turning off
displeasing, offending, outraging, scandalizing
chilling, daunting, demoralizing, dispiriting, emasculating, undoing, unmanning, unnerving, unstringing
discomforting, discomposing, disconcerting, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, shaking, unsettling, upsetting, weirding out
- were shocked by the way the law against public intoxication was constantly being broken
amazing, astonishing, astounding, bowling over, dumbfounding (also dumfounding), flabbergasting, flooring, rocking, startling, stunning, stupefying, surprising (also surprizing), thunderstriking
- the sudden appearance of the ghost shocked us to the core
appalling, bowling over, dismaying, flooring, jolting, shaking, shaking up
chilling, daunting, demoralizing, dispiriting, emasculating, psyching (out), undoing, unmanning, unnerving, unstringing
discomforting, discomposing, disconcerting, disquieting, distracting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, unsettling, upsetting, worrying
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