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appalling | appallingness |

As a verb appalling

is .

As an adjective appalling

is horrifying and astonishing.

As a noun appallingness is

the quality of being appalling.

appalling

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Horrifying and astonishing.
    • That was an appalling waste of money.

    Usage notes

    * Not to be confused with appealing.

    Synonyms

    * awful, grotesque, horrid, hideous, terrible

    Derived terms

    * appallingly

    appallingness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being appalling.
  • * 1978 , Wilbur Sanders, Howard Jacobson, Shakespeare's magnanimity
    • The appallingness of the idea of murder, the appallingness of this murder, does not shake Hamlet to his soul and does not haunt him later. The deep damnation of the taking off is felt as only one of a series of horrors.