atrocious 音标拼音: [ətr'oʃəs]
a . 残暴的,凶恶的
残暴的,凶恶的
atrocious adj 1 :
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 " [
synonym : {
atrocious }, {
flagitious }, {
grievous },
{
monstrous }]
2 :
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 " [
synonym :
{
atrocious }, {
abominable }, {
awful }, {
dreadful }, {
painful },
{
terrible }, {
unspeakable }]
3 :
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 " [
synonym : {
atrocious },
{
frightful }, {
horrifying }, {
horrible }, {
ugly }]
Atrocious \
A *
tro "
cious \,
a . [
L .
atrox ,
atrocis ,
cruel ,
fierce :
cf .
F .
atroce .]
1 .
Extremely heinous ;
full of enormous wickedness ;
as ,
atrocious guilt or deeds .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
Characterized by ,
or expressing ,
great atrocity .
[
1913 Webster ]
Revelations . . .
so atrocious that nothing in history approaches them . --
De Quincey .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
Very grievous or violent ;
terrible ;
as ,
atrocious distempers . [
Obs .] --
Cheyne .
[
1913 Webster ]
Syn : {
Atrocious }, {
Flagitious }, {
Flagrant }.
Usage :
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 .
[
1913 Webster ] -- {
A *
tro "
cious *
ly },
adv . --
{
A *
tro "
cious *
ness },
n .
[
1913 Webster ]
261 Moby Thesaurus words for "
atrocious ":
Draconian ,
Tartarean ,
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 ,
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 ,
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
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