Synonyms:
aghast(p), appalled, dismayed, shocked
Meaning: struck with fear, dread, or consternation
Usage examples
The girls were appalled.
Appalled in speechless disgust
The enormousness of it appalled him.
"Nothing, of course," said Miss Drew, appalled by the base commercialism of the twentieth century.
She saw in them a comedy of naive pretences, but hardly anything genuine except her own appalled indignation.
She was appalled at the number of children who appeared scarcely to understand that there was such a thing as school.
Both the sisters seemed struck: not shocked or appalled; the tidings appeared in their eyes rather momentous than afflicting.
Shaken by earthquake, swept by flames, the water supply cut off by the breaking of the mains, the authorities of the doomed city for a time stood appalled.
It is rather innocence whose eyelids drop when you peer too closely into its eyes, for innocence is appalled by the stern, accusing glances which it is unprepared to meet.
And there looked out at him, it seemed, the same dark sallow face that had so much appalled him only two nights ago--expressionless, cadaverous, with shadowy hollows beneath the glittering eyes.