atrocious
adj/əˈtɹəʊ.ʃəs/UK/əˈtɹoʊ.ʃəs/US
Etymology
From Latin atrōx (“cruel, fierce, frightful”) + -ious.
- derived from atrōx
Definitions
Frightful, evil, cruel, or monstrous.
- Prisons have been the sites of atrocious mistreatment of prisoners.
Offensive or heinous.
- I had resolved in my own mind, that to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness; and I banished from my mind every thought that could lead to a different conclusion.
Very bad
Very bad; abominable, disgusting.
- Their taste in clothes is just atrocious.
The neighborhood
- synonymabominable
- synonymdreadful
- synonymheinous
- synonymhorrible
- synonymterrible
- antonymexcellent
- antonymsuperb
- antonymwonderful
- neighboratrocity
- neighboratrous
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for atrocious. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA