1 that offends or upsets people; that is morally wrong:
shocking behaviour * shocking news * It is shocking that they involved children in the crime. * a shocking waste of money
2 (informal, especially BrE) very bad:
The house was left in a shocking state.
shockingly adverb:
a shockingly high mortality rate * She looked shockingly ill.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for shocking is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is shocking a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, shocking is tagged as adjective.
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