English
Etymology
From shock + -ing.
Pronunciation
Adjective
shocking (comparative more shocking, superlative most shocking)
- Inspiring shock; startling.
- Unusually obscene or lewd.
- (colloquial) Extremely bad.
What a shocking calamity!
Synonyms
See Thesaurus:surprising
Derived terms
Translations
inspiring shock; startling
- Arabic: صَادِم (ṣādim)
- Armenian: ցնցող (hy) (cʻncʻoġ)
- Belarusian: шакава́льны (šakaválʹny), шакі́руючы (šakírujučy)
- Bulgarian: шокиращ (bg) (šokirašt), ужасяващ (bg) (užasjavašt)
- Catalan: xocant (ca), espantós (ca), desastrós
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 觸目驚心 / 触目惊心 (zh) (chùmù jīngxīn), 驚人的 / 惊人的 (jīngrén de), 駭人的 / 骇人的 (hàirén de), 令人震驚的 / 令人震惊的 (lìngrén zhènjīng de)
- Czech: otřesný (cs), strašný (cs)
- Danish: rystende, chokerende
- Dutch: schokkend (nl), choquerend (nl)
- 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)
- Hebrew: מדהים, מזעזע (he), מהמם
- Hungarian: sokkoló (hu)
- Italian: sconvolgente (it)
- Kazakh: жантүршігерлік (jantürşıgerlık), жантүршіктірерлік (jantürşıktırerlık)
- Khmer: ដ៏រន្ធត់ (dɑɑ-rŭənthŭət)
- Marathi: धक्कादायक (dhakkādāyak)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sjokkerende
- Plautdietsch: schudahauft
- Polish: wstrząsający, szokujący (pl)
- Portuguese: chocante (pt)
- Romanian: șocant (ro)
- Russian: потряса́ющий (ru) (potrjasájuščij), ужаса́ющий (ru) (užasájuščij), шоки́рующий (ru) (šokírujuščij)
- Spanish: espantoso (es), chocante, impactante (es), shockeante
- Swedish: chockerande (sv), upprörande (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: шоку́ючий (šokújučyj)
- Vietnamese: gây sốc
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unusually obscene or lewd
Verb
shocking
- present participle and gerund of shock
Noun
shocking (plural shockings)
- 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
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English shocking.
Adjective
shocking m or f or n (indeclinable)
- shocking
Declension
Declension of shocking (invariable)
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