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What is the adjective for shockingness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb shock which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

shocking
  1. Inspiring shock; startling
  2. Unusually obscene or lewd
  3. (colloquial) Extremely bad
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The family would receive a shocking surprise when they moved into their new home.”
      “Residents of Springfield were bemused by the shocking appearance of a spirit claiming to bring love to them.”
shockable
  1. Able to be shocked.
  2. Easily shocked.
  3. (medicine) Capable of being treated by defibrillator.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “A reliable narrator, I would suggest, is an intelligent, shockable, conscientious and perceptive, human being.”
      “For the less shockable audience of today, particularly one with a core of depraved Oxford students, this play presses all the right buttons.”
      “With manual defibrillation, you must evaluate the ECG rhythm to determine whether or not it is shockable.”
shocked
  1. surprised, startled, confused, or taken aback.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The audience were shocked at how David was able to pull off his grand illusion.”
      “The counselor was shocked at the mother's lack of empathy for her children's needs.”
      “The explorers were shocked to see a ghostly apparition materialize before us.”
shockless
  1. Not causing, or not undergoing, a shock or shocks.
shocklike
  1. (medicine) Resembling or characteristic of shock.
shockt
  1. Obsolete form of shocked.
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