atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly
(adjective) provoking horror; âan atrocious automobile accidentâ; âa frightful crime of decapitationâ; âan alarming, even horrifying, pictureâ; âwar is beyond all words horribleâ- Winston Churchill; âan ugly woundâ
atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable
(adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing; âatrocious tasteâ; âabominable workmanshipâ; âan awful voiceâ; âdreadful mannersâ; âa painful performanceâ; âterrible handwritingâ; âan unspeakable odor came sweeping into the roomâ
atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous
(adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel; âmurder is an atrocious crimeâ; âa grievous offense against moralityâ; âa grievous crimeâ; âno excess was too monstrous for them to commitâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
atrocious (comparative more atrocious, superlative most atrocious)
Frightful, evil, cruel, or monstrous.
Offensive or heinous.
Very bad; abominable, disgusting.
Source: Wiktionary
A*tro"cious, a. Etym: [L. atrox, atrocis, cruel, fierce: cf. F. atroce.]
1. Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.
2. Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity, great atrocity. Revelations . . . so atrocious that nothing in history approaches them. De Quincey.
3. Very grievous or violent; terrible; as, atrocious distempers. [Obs.] Cheyne.
Syn.
– Atrocious, Flagitious, Flagrant. Flagitious points to an act as grossly wicked and vile; as, a flagitious proposal. Flagrant marks the vivid impression made upon the mind by something strikingly wrong or erroneous; as, a flagrant misrepresentation; a flagrant violation of duty. Atrocious represents the act as springing from a violent and savage spirit. If Lord Chatham, instead of saying "the atrocious crime of being a young man," had used either of the other two words, his irony would have lost all its point, in his celebrated reply to Sir Robert Walpole, as reported by Dr. Johnson.
– A*tro"cious*ly, adv.
– A*tro"cious*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 January 2025
(adverb) in an uninformative manner; ââI canât tell you when the manager will arrive,â he said rather uninformativelyâ
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