shocking

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Extremely bad.

   What a shocking calamity!

2. 2
   noun

   The application of an electric shock.

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

3. 3
   adj

   giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation

4. 4
   adj

   glaringly vivid and graphic

5. 5
   adj

   Inspiring shock; startling.

6. 6
   adj

   Unusually obscene or lewd.

7. 7
   verb

   present participle and gerund of shock

Etymology

From shock + -ing.