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say it: SHAH-king
shocking is an adjective meaning "glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism". It is pronounced /ˈʃɑkɪŋ/ — SHAH-king. It carries 2 recorded senses.
glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
“lurid details of the accident”
giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation
“scandalous behavior”
“the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt”
“the most shocking book of its time”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shocking come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.