appalling

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   causing consternation

   appalling conditions

2. 2
   noun

   an experience that appalls

   is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it?

3. 3
   adj

   Horrifying and astonishing.

   That was an appalling waste of money.

4. 4
   adj

   Extremely unfavorable; terrible.

   Sir Thomas Royden, Chairman of the L.M.S.R., and Mr. Robert Holland-Martin, Chairman of the Southern Railway, both deplored the wholesale robbery and petty pilferage which have increased until they have reached appalling dimensions.

5. 5
   verb

   present participle and gerund of appall

Etymology

By surface analysis, appall + -ing.