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shocking

adj
/ˈʃɒkɪŋ/UK/ˈʃɑkɪŋ/US

Etymology

From shock + -ing.

  1. derived from *(s)kek-✻
  2. derived from *skakaną✻
  3. derived from *skukkaną✻
  4. derived from *skokkan✻
  5. derived from choquer
  6. derived from schokken
  7. formed as shocking — “shock + -ing”

Definitions

  1. Inspiring shock

    Inspiring shock; startling.

  2. Unusually obscene or lewd.

  3. Extremely bad.

    • What a shocking calamity!
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. present participle and gerund of shock

    2. The application of an electric shock.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at shocking. 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.

01shocking02shock03heavy04somber05sombre06grim07ghastly

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

7 hops · closes at shocking

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