appalling adj. Accompanied by an apparatus in any figurative sense: ruckus, exaggeration, brilliance, complication, luxury ... : A very spectacular event, a spectacular fall, a spectacular hat, the beginning of the disease was very spectacular . Complicated, emphatic, exaggerated, fachendoso, grandiloquent, bloated, hollow, impressive, striking, luxurious, magnificent, ostentatious, pompous, pretentious, rumbling, bombastic. Complicate.