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appalling

verb
/əˈpɔːlɪŋ/

Etymology

By surface analysis, appall + -ing.

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of appall

  2. Horrifying and astonishing.

    • That was an appalling waste of money.

  3. Extremely unfavorable

    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.

The neighborhood

Derived

appallingly, appallingness, unappalling

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at appalling. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01appalling02appall03pale04shock05heavy06somber07sombre08dreary

A definitional loop anchored at appalling. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at appalling

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA