appal

Other forms of appal

past tense or participle

appalled

present participle

appalling

third person

appals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about appal

What does appal mean?

appal means "strike with disgust or revulsion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appal?

appal has 2 syllables: ap-pal. The stress falls on "pal".

What is another word for appal?

Close synonyms include shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appall. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is appal a common word?

appal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.