- lurid, shocking - glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism; "lurid details of the accident"
Antonym: unsensational (indirect, via sensational)
- disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shocking - giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time"
Antonym: moral (indirect, via immoral, amoral)
Antonyms: amoral, unmoral (indirect, via moral, immoral)
- shock, stun, floor, ball over, blow out of the water, take aback - surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off; "I was floored when I heard that I was promoted"
--1 is one way to surprise
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun shock6
The bad news will shock him
The good news will shock her
- shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, outrage - strike with disgust or revulsion; "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends"
--2 is one way to disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun shock1, noun shocker1
The performance is likely to shock Sue
- shock - strike with horror or terror; "The news of the bombing shocked her"
--3 is one way to dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrify
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun shock1, noun shock6, noun shocker2
The bad news will shock him
The performance is likely to shock Sue
- shock - collide violently
--4 is one way to collide, clash
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun shock2
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
- shock - collect or gather into shocks; "shock grain"
--5 is one way to gather, garner, collect, pull together
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun shock7
Somebody ----s something
- shock - subject to electrical shocks
--6 is one way to treat, care for
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun shock3
Somebody ----s somebody
- traumatize, traumatise, shock - inflict a trauma upon
--7 is one way to injure, wound
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun shock6, noun shock1
Something ----s somebody