Usually means: Shocking, horrifying, or extremely bad.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word appalling:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. appalling: Merriam-Webster
  2. appalling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. appalling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. appalling: Collins English Dictionary
  5. appalling: Vocabulary.com
  6. Appalling, appalling: Wordnik
  7. appalling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. appalling: Wiktionary
  9. appalling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. appalling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. appalling: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Appalling, appalling: Dictionary.com
  13. appalling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Appalling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. appalling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. appalling: Rhymezone
  17. appalling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. appalling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. appalling: FreeDictionary.org
  20. appalling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. appalling: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. appalling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. appalling: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. appalling: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Horrifying and astonishing.
▸ adjective:  Extremely bad; terrible

Similar:
alarming, dismaying, ghastly, staggering, horripilating, shocking, parlous, breath-catching, aghast, breathtaking, more...

Opposite:
terrific, amazing, wonderful, fantastic

Types:
horrifying, frightening, terrifying, shocking, scary, ghastly, horrendous, more...

Phrases:
opposite of appalling, acting appalling, more...

Colors:
    dark red,     blood red,     sickly green,     bruise purple,     vomit green, more...



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Similar:
alarming, dismaying, ghastly, staggering, horripilating, shocking, parlous, breath-catching, aghast, breathtaking, more...

Opposite:
terrific, amazing, wonderful, fantastic

Types:
horrifying, frightening, terrifying, shocking, scary, ghastly, horrendous, more...

Phrases:
opposite of appalling, acting appalling, more...

Colors:
    dark red,     blood red,     sickly green,     bruise purple,     vomit green, more...



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