Dictionary Definition
atrocious adj
1 shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an
atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a
grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"
[syn: flagitious,
grievous, heinous, monstrous]
2 exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious
taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful
manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an
unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" [syn: abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable]
3 provoking horror; "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" [syn: frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From atrox, from ater.Pronunciation
- Rhymes with: -əʊʃəs
Adjective
- frightful,
evil, cruel or monstrous
- Prisons have been the sites of atrocious mistreatment of prisoners.
- offensive or heinous
- very bad; abominable or disgusting
- Their taste in clothes is just atrocious.
Related terms
Translations
evil, cruel
- Catalan: atroç
- Danish: grusom
- Dutch: vreselijk, verschrikkelijk, monsterlijk, afgrijselijk
- Finnish: julma, hirveä
- French: atroce
- German: grauenhaft
- Italian: atroce
- Romanian: atroce
offensive, heinous
- Danish: oprørende
- Dutch: afschuwelijk
- French: atroce
- Italian: atroce
- Romanian: atroce
abominable, disgusting
- Danish: rædselsfuld
- Dutch: weerzinwekkend, afgrijselijk, verschrikkelijk
- Finnish: kauhistuttava, hirvittävä, hirveä
- French: atroce
- Italian: atroce
- Romanian: atroce
translations to be checked
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Draconian, Tartarean, aberrant, abject, abnormal, abominable, abusive, acute, afflictive, agonizing, animal, anthropophagous,
appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, backhand, backhanded, bad, baneful, barbaric, barbarous, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt,
bestial, biting, black, blamable, blameworthy, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, calumnious, cannibalistic, cheesy, contemptible, contumelious, cramping, criminal, cruel, cruel-hearted, crummy, crying, damnable, dark, debased, degraded, degrading, delinquent, demoniac, demoniacal, deplorable, depraved, desperate, despicable, detestable, deviant, devilish, diabolic, dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, displeasing, distasteful, distressing, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, excruciating, execrable, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fetid, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, foul, frightful, fulsome, ghastly, glaring, gnawing, grave, grievous, grim, griping, grisly, gross, gruesome, hard, hardly the thing, harrowing, harsh, hateful, heinous, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, humiliating, hurtful, hurting, icky, ignominious, illegal, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iniquitous, insolent, insulting, kill-crazy,
knavish, lamentable, left-handed,
little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, malign, malignant, mangy, mean, measly, merciless, miserable, monstrous, murderous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, noncivilized, not done, not
the thing, notorious,
obnoxious, obscene, odious, off-base, off-color,
offensive,
out-of-line, outrageous, painful, paltry, paroxysmal, peccant, petty, piercing, pitiable, pitiful, pitiless, poignant, poky, poor, pungent, racking, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, reprobate, rotten, ruthless, sacrilegious, sad, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, severe, shabby, shameful, shameless, sharkish, sharp, shocking, shoddy, shooting, sickening, sinful, slavering, small, sordid, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, squalid, stabbing, stinging, subhuman, tameless, terrible, too bad, tormenting, torturous, tragic, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, unclean, undue, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, ungentle, unhuman, unlawful, unmentionable, unpardonable, unrighteous, unseemly, unspeakable, unsuitable, untamed, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wild, woeful, wolfish, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong, wrongful