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Synonyms for shocking

Synonyms for shocking: shameful and lurid. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · adjective

The 2 synonyms for shocking

Interchangeable with shocking in this sense

Audited under shocking's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one shocking carries in that sense.

shamefuladjective, in the sense "giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name shocking as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

luridlurid is an adjective in the sense "glaringly vivid and graphic"

Two directions, one standard: one audited under shocking and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.

The senseadjectiveTier 2, TreelineEvents

giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation

The most shocking book of its time.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

shameful

Same sentence, swapped: The most shameful book of its time.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

tremendous
unexpected
quick

Where shocking turns up in the game

shocking is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play shocking

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so shocking reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Everything on it is a stored field, not a run-time composition.

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