Atrocious Definition

ə-trōshəs
adjective
Extremely evil or cruel; monstrous.
An atrocious crime.
American Heritage
Very cruel, evil, brutal, etc.
Webster's New World
Exceptionally bad; abominable.
Atrocious decor; atrocious behavior.
American Heritage
Appalling or dismaying.
Webster's New World
Very bad, unpleasant, offensive, inferior, etc.
An atrocious joke.
Webster's New World
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noun
An act that is outrageously cruel, vile, and wicked and that demonstrates a depravity and insensitive brutality, especially when using senseless, excessive, or extreme violence during the commission of a crime.
Webster's New World Law

Origin of Atrocious

  • From Latin atrōx atrōc- frightful, cruel āter- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin atrox (“fierce, frightful, cruel”), from ater (“black”).

    From Wiktionary

Atrocious Sentence Examples

  • This atrocious act was soon avenged.

  • Her breath must be atrocious.

  • Dawkins points to the really atrocious consequences of faith.

  • However atrocious its conception and its aims, it is impossible not to feel, together with horror for the deed, some pity and admiration for the guilty persons who took part in it.

  • However, the sound is so atrocious that it makes the graphics look sophisticated in comparison.

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