shockable

1 6.1

Easily upset by news or treated with an electric current

adjective
/ˈʃɑkəbl/

Specialized

: choqueable

shockable rhythm

So you've got to start making it more and more shockable, more car crash because people get bored.

Examples

So you've got to start making it more and more shockable, more car crash because people get bored.

Dodge Woodall
The introduction of AEDs has demonstrated a high survival rate in cases where early defibrillation takes place in a shockable rhythm, such as ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia.

Academic text (2007)
When a patient is in a shockable rhythm, immediate defibrillation can save their life.
Emergency responders were trained to recognize and treat shockable rhythms during cardiac arrest.
The medical team had to act quickly as the ECG showed a shockable rhythm requiring immediate intervention.

Antonyms

unshockable

Informal

7.4

A person who is not easily surprised or offended by shocking events

How Shockable

sensitive

488 2.9

shockable

Specialized

1 6.1

resistant

8 3.7

Surface Forms

shockable positive

shockabler comparative

shockablest superlative

Morphology

shockable = shock (transparent) = shock + able

Regular derivation from the verb 'shock' with the productive suffix '-able' meaning 'capable of being X', applying to both emotional and medical senses.

Etymology

Shockable comes from shock, a word that originally meant a 'sudden hit or surprise', plus the ending -able meaning 'able to be'. So shockable describes something 'able to be shocked', whether by a sudden surprise or by an electric or medical shock.