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Shocking vs Obvious - What's the difference?

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Shocking is a related term of obvious.


As adjectives the difference between shocking and obvious

is that shocking is inspiring shock; startling while obvious is easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.

As a verb shocking

is .

As a noun shocking

is the application of an electric shock.

shocking

English

Adjective

(head)
  • Inspiring shock; startling
  • Unusually obscene or lewd
  • (colloquial) Extremely bad
  • Synonyms

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    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The application of an electric shock.
  • * 2005 , Will Tuttle, The World Peace Diet
  • We terrorize millions of vulnerable and defenseless animals daily with painful shockings , beatings, brandings,

    Anagrams

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    obvious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
  • *
  • *:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-17, volume=408, issue=8849, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Down towns , passage=It is not obvious , to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.}}

    Synonyms

    * See also .

    Antonyms

    * unobvious * non-obvious * subtle

    Derived terms

    * obviously * obviousness

    See also

    * plain * clear * evident * manifest