Modifies a noun

• weather: Despite atrocious weather they managed to raise more than £ 70.

• condition: You know a fair bit about the atrocious conditions young people used to work in back in the 19th Century.

• murder: Oscar orders Polonius to kill Pete off - " make it an atrocious murder!

• act: For such atrocious acts, suicide is too small a price to pay.

• crime: It's partly for this reason that we overlook the atrocious crimes committed by the government of Rwanda.

• behavior: We are all aware of some of the atrocious behavior that has taken place in some areas on the coal health scheme.

Modifying Another Word

• absolutely: In fact, the role of Martin Wicks, the new Energy Minister, has been absolutely atrocious.

• pretty: Then someone in head office decided they should be more pop; the results were pretty atrocious.

• truly: The only real negative is some truly atrocious editing, which occasionally makes the script seem disjointed.

• so: The act of killing the man who fights alongside you is so atrocious as to merit special attention.

• particularly: Naturally we're looking for those examples that stand out as particularly atrocious.

• really: Dawkins points to the really atrocious consequences of faith.

Used with adjective complement

• look: A web page that looks great in Internet Explorer might look atrocious in a Mozilla based browser like Firefox or Netscape.

• remain: Meanwhile, the weather remained atrocious; occasionally the snow became so thick that the Ridge was entirely hidden.