atrocious | ||
1. | [ adjective ] exceptionally bad or displeasing | |
Synonyms: | awful unspeakable terrible dreadful painful abominable | |
Examples: | "atrocious taste" "abominable workmanship" "an awful voice" "dreadful manners" "a painful performance" "terrible handwriting" "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" |
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Related terms: | bad | |
2. | [ adjective ] shockingly brutal or cruel | |
Synonyms: | monstrous grievous heinous flagitious | |
Examples: | "murder is an atrocious crime" "a grievous offense against morality" "a grievous crime" "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit" |
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Related terms: | evil | |
3. | [ adjective ] provoking horror | |
Synonyms: | frightful horrible horrifying ugly | |
Examples: | "an atrocious automobile accident" "a frightful crime of decapitation" "an alarming, even horrifying, picture" "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill "an ugly wound" |
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Related terms: | alarming | |
Similar spelling: |
atrociously atrocity attractor ataractic attractive attraction attract |