atrocious
11atrocious — adjective extremely bad or showing no ability to do something at all: atrocious weather | Her singing was atrocious. | atrocious housing conditions atrociously adverb atrociousness noun (U) …
12atrocious — adj. 1 very bad or unpleasant (atrocious weather; their manners were atrocious). 2 extremely savage or wicked (atrocious cruelty). Derivatives: atrociously adv. atrociousness n. Etymology: L atrox ocis cruel …
13atrocious — adjective a) frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous Prisons have been the sites of atrocious mistreatment of prisoners. b) offensive or heinous Their taste in clothes is just atrocious. See Also …
14atrocious — a|tro|cious [əˈtrəuʃəs US əˈtrou ] adj [Date: 1600 1700; : Latin; Origin: atrox sad, cruel , from ater black + ox looking, appearing ] extremely bad = ↑awful ▪ atrocious weather ▪ Her singing was atrocious. >atrociously adv …
15atrocious — adjective 1) atrocious cruelties Syn: brutal, barbaric, barbarous, savage, vicious, beastly; wicked, cruel, nasty, heinous, monstrous, vile, inhuman, black hearted, fiendish, ghastly, horrible; …
16atrocious — adjective 1) atrocious cruelties Syn: wicked, cruel, brutal, barbaric, vicious, monstrous, vile, inhuman, fiendish 2) the weather was atrocious Syn: appalling, dreadful …
17atrocious — a•tro•cious [[t]əˈtroʊ ʃəs[/t]] adj. 1) extremely wicked or brutal: an atrocious crime[/ex] 2) shockingly bad: atrocious manners[/ex] • Etymology: 1660–70; < Latrōx, s. atrōci frightful, fierce a•tro′cious•ly, adv. a•tro′cious•ness, n …
18atrocious — adj. Atrocious is used with these nouns: ↑record, ↑weather …
19atrocious — Synonyms and related words: Draconian, Tartarean, aberrant, abject, abnormal, abominable, abusive, acute, afflictive, agonizing, animal, anthropophagous, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, backhand, backhanded, bad, baneful, barbaric, barbarous …
20atrocious — [17] Traced back to its ultimate source, atrocious meant something not too dissimilar to ‘having a black eye’. Latin āter was ‘black, dark’ (it occurs also in English atrabilious ‘melancholic’ [17] – Greek mélās meant ‘black’), and the stem * oc …
