Appalling and Hellish

noun

• An experience that appalls.
  • usage: "is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it"

verb

• Strike with disgust or revulsion.
  • usage: "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends"
  • synonyms: shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, outrage
• Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised.
  • usage: "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"
  • synonyms: dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrify
• Strike with disgust or revulsion.
  • usage: "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends"
  • synonyms: shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, outrage
• Fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised.
  • usage: "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us"
  • synonyms: dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrify

adjective

• Causing consternation.
  • usage: "appalling conditions"
  • synonyms: dismaying

• (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Appall.
• (a.) Such as to appall; as, an appalling accident.

adjective

• Very unpleasant.
  • usage: "hellish weather"; "stop that god-awful racket"
  • synonyms: beastly, god-awful
• Extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell.
  • usage: "something demonic in him-something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces"
  • synonyms: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, infernal, satanic, unholy