Definition of Atrocious

1. Adjective. Shockingly brutal or cruel. "No excess was too monstrous for them to commit"

Exact synonyms: Flagitious, Grievous, Monstrous
Similar to: Evil
Derivative terms: Atrociousness, Atrocity, Atrocity, Monster, Monstrosity

2. Adjective. Exceptionally bad or displeasing. "An unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
Exact synonyms: Abominable, Awful, Dreadful, Painful, Terrible, Unspeakable
Similar to: Bad
Derivative terms: Awfulness, Dreadfulness, Terribleness

3. Adjective. Provoking horror. "An ugly wound"
Exact synonyms: Frightful, Horrible, Horrifying, Ugly
Similar to: Alarming
Derivative terms: Frightfulness

Definition of Atrocious

1. a. Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.

Definition of Atrocious

1. Adjective. frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous ¹

2. Adjective. offensive or heinous (rfex) ¹

3. Adjective. very bad; abominable or disgusting ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Atrocious

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Atrocious

atrist
atrium cordis
atrium dextrum
atrium dextrum cordis
atrium glottidis
atrium meatus medii
atrium of heart
atrium of the heart
atrium pulmonale
atrium sinistrum
atrium sinistrum cordis
atriums
atrocha
atrochae
atrocious (current term)
atrociously
atrociousness
atrociousnesses
atrocities
atrocity
atroke
atrop-
atrophedema
atrophia
atrophia cutis
atrophia maculosa varioliformis cutis
atrophia pilorum propria
atrophias
atrophic

Literary usage of Atrocious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties & His Education by Helvétius (1810)
"To prevent them, let the friend of kings and enemy of fanaticism, learn by what certain signs they may distinguish the several causes of atrocious ..."

2. History of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1899)
"... weigh the retrenchment of a few abuses against the formal sanction of an atrocious maxim. It was not, however, necessary for any government of tolerable ..."

3. Biographia juridica. A biographical dictionary of the judges of England from by Edward Foss (1870)
"... Lord Campbell says that Fitz-James's conduct was 'not lesa atrocious/ adding that 'no one can deny that he was an accessory to this atrocious murder. ..."

4. International Cases: Arbitrations and Incidents Illustrative of by Ellery Cory Stowell, Henry Fraser Munro (1916)
""THE MOST atrocious THING OF ALL" (1915) "THE most atrocious thing of all was the order of the highest Russian military authority, found on a high Russian ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"... the instrument and the mask of the most atrocious crimes. As soou as the zeal of informers was encouraged by the ministers of ..."

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