Atrocious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Extremely evil or cruel; monstrous: an atrocious crime.
  • adj. Exceptionally bad; abominable: atrocious decor; atrocious behavior.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous
  • adj. offensive or heinous
  • adj. very bad; abominable or disgusting
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness.
  • adj. Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity.
  • adj. Very grievous or violent; terrible.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Manifesting or characterized by atrocity; extremely heinous, criminal, or cruel; enormously or outrageously wicked.
  • Very grievous; violent: as, atrocious distempers.
  • Very bad; execrable: as, an atrocious pun.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. shockingly brutal or cruel
  • adj. exceptionally bad or displeasing
  • adj. provoking horror
  • Equivalent
    evil    bad    alarming   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    flagrant    flagitious    terrible    wicked    cruel    outrageous   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    ferocious    precocious   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    heinous    abominable    infamous    detestable    barbarous    horrid    nefarious    appal    cowardly    dastardly