Associations to the word «Appalling»

Wiktionary

APPALLING, verb. Present participle of appall
APPALLING, adjective. Horrifying and astonishing.

Dictionary definition

APPALLING, noun. An experience that appalls; "is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it?".
APPALLING, adjective. Causing consternation; "appalling conditions".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne