appalled

English

Etymology

From appall +‎ -ed

Adjective

appalled (comparative more appalled, superlative most appalled)

1. Shocked, horrified by something unpleasant.
   • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian‎:

     But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.

   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56:

     West's friends were so appalled by the nature of his death that they arranged for a wooden memorial in the churchyard of St Laurence's, constructed aptly from a railway sleeper.

   • 2024 September 8, Kamala Thiagarajan, “Women who are blind play a critical role in identifying possible breast cancers”, in NPR‎:

     Dr. Frank Hoffman, a gynecologist and founder of the program, says he was appalled by the sheer numbers of cases of early-stage breast cancer that were being missed, not just in Germany but around the world.

Alternative forms

• appauled (nonstandard)

Derived terms

• unappalled

Translations

shocked, horrified by something unpleasant

Italian: inorridito (it) Malagasy: manahy (mg) Portuguese: consternado (pt) Spanish: escandalizado (es), horrorizado (es), consternado (es), apabullado (es)

Verb

appalled

1. simple past and past participle of appall
2. simple past and past participle of appal