Appalling

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Causing consternation or dismay; frightful: appalling working conditions; appalling violence.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of appall.
  • adj. Horrifying and astonishing.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Such as to appall.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Causing or fitted to cause dismay or horror: as, an appalling accident; an appalling sight.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. causing consternation
  • n. an experience that appalls
    • Equivalent
    alarming   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    experience   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    horrid    hideous    terrible    awful    grotesque   
    Verb Stem
    appall   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Pauling    balling    brawling    calling    crawling   
     
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