'atrocious' definitions:
Definition of 'atrocious'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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: atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous]
adjective
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: atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable]
adjective
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: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly]
Synonyms of 'atrocious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Draconian,
- 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,
- Tartarean,
- 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