appalling

«appalling» in Mova's school dictionary: Very shocking and unpleasant — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (appalling, more appalling, most appalling)

meaning for a pupil

1) Very shocking and unpleasant. tree →

2) (informal) Very bad: «appalling weather», «appalling handwriting». tree →

3) Appalling can also mean so impressive that it is astonishing. tree →

sense in the lessons

Common in UK everyday talk and news for strong disapproval. Phrases: «appalling conditions», «appalling behaviour».

examples

• The weather was appalling on sports day. tree →
• The animals lived in appalling conditions. tree →
• His handwriting is appalling! tree →
• That was appalling behaviour. tree →
• The traffic was appalling this morning. tree →
• The food at the camp was appalling. tree →

note

From «appal» (UK) / «appall» (US). Adverb: appallingly. Double p, double l.

In the corpora

• An appalling and horrible thing is come to pass in the land:

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «appalling» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.