'atrocity' definitions:
Definition of 'atrocity'
From: WordNet
noun
The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane [syn: atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness]
noun
An act of atrocious cruelty [syn: atrocity, inhumanity]
Synonyms of 'atrocity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abomination,
- abuse,
- acuteness,
- affront,
- animality,
- aspersion,
- atrociousness,
- awfulness,
- bad,
- bane,
- banefulness,
- barbarity,
- befoulment,
- blight,
- bloodlust,
- breach,
- brickbat,
- brutality,
- contempt,
- contumely,
- corruption,
- crime,
- crime against humanity,
- cruelty,
- crying evil,
- cut,
- damage,
- deadly sin,
- defilement,
- delinquency,
- dereliction,
- desecration,
- despite,
- despoliation,
- destruction,
- destructiveness,
- detriment,
- direness,
- disgrace,
- disservice,
- dreadfulness,
- dump,
- enormity,
- error,
- evil,
- extremity,
- failure,
- fault,
- felony,
- ferociousness,
- fierceness,
- flagitiousness,
- flout,
- flouting,
- force,
- furiousness,
- genocide,
- gibe,
- great wrong,
- grievance,
- grimness,
- gross injustice,
- guilty act,
- harm,
- harshness,
- havoc,
- heavy sin,
- heinousness,
- hideousness,
- horribleness,
- horridness,
- horror,
- humiliation,
- hurt,
- ignominy,
- ill,
- ill-treatment,
- ill-usage,
- ill-use,
- impetuosity,
- imposition,
- impropriety,
- inclemency,
- indignity,
- indiscretion,
- inexpiable sin,
- infamy,
- infection,
- inhumanity,
- iniquity,
- injury,
- injustice,
- insult,
- intensity,
- jeer,
- jeering,
- knavery,
- lapse,
- malefaction,
- malfeasance,
- malignity,
- maltreatment,
- malum,
- mercilessness,
- mindlessness,
- minor wrong,
- miscarriage of justice,
- mischief,
- misdeed,
- misdemeanor,
- misfeasance,
- mistreatment,
- mock,
- mockery,
- molestation,
- monstrousness,
- mortal sin,
- murderousness,
- nonfeasance,
- obliquity,
- offense,
- omission,
- outrage,
- peccadillo,
- peccancy,
- pitilessness,
- pity,
- poison,
- pollution,
- profanation,
- put-down,
- raw deal,
- reprobacy,
- rigor,
- roughness,
- sacrilege,
- savagery,
- scandal,
- scoff,
- scurrility,
- severity,
- shame,
- sharpness,
- sin,
- sin of commission,
- sin of omission,
- sinful act,
- slip,
- taunt,
- terrible thing,
- terribleness,
- terrorism,
- the worst,
- tort,
- toxin,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- trip,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- ungentleness,
- unutterable sin,
- vandalism,
- vehemence,
- venial sin,
- venom,
- vexation,
- viciousness,
- villainy,
- violation,
- violence,
- virulence,
- wickedness,
- woe,
- wrong