shocking

Meanings

Verb

• surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off
• strike with disgust or revulsion
• strike with horror or terror
• collide violently
• collect or gather into shocks
• subject to electrical shocks
• inflict a trauma upon

Adjective Satellite

• glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
• giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; ; - Thackeray
  • "the most shocking book of its time"

Synonyms

appal, appall, ball over, blow out of the water, disgraceful, floor, lurid, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, scandalous, shameful, shock, take aback, traumatise, traumatize