Meaning

3 senses
  1. Frightful, evil, cruel, or monstrous.

    Prisons have been the sites of atrocious mistreatment of prisoners.

    grauenhaft

    зве́рскийzvérskij, жесто́кийžestókij

    shockingly brutal or cruel

  2. Offensive or heinous.

    ужа́сныйužásnyj, гну́сныйgnúsnyj

  3. Very bad; abominable, disgusting.

    Their taste in clothes is just atrocious.

    отврати́тельныйotvratítelʹnyj, омерзи́тельныйomerzítelʹnyj, гну́сныйgnúsnyj

    exceptionally bad or displeasing

Examples

21 sentences
  1. The smell is atrocious.

    ruЗапах отвратительный. — sharptoothed

  2. I think it's atrocious.

  3. The weather yesterday certainly was atrocious.

    deDas gestrige Wetter war in der Tat abscheulich. — al_ex_an_der

  4. Lucy's cute, but she's got an atrocious character.

    ruЛюся симпатичная, но у нее ужасный характер. — V_Zmoova

    deLucy ist hübsch, aber sie hat einen scheußlichen Charakter. — Manfredo

  5. Tom is a wonderful storyteller, but his spelling is atrocious.

    ruТом - прекрасный рассказчик, но с правописанием у него катастрофа. — marafon

    deTom kann wunderschön erzählen, aber seine Rechtschreibung ist eine Katastrophe. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
frightful, evil, cruel, monstrous:
offensive, heinous:
very bad:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
frightful, evil, cruel, monstrous:

Origin

From Latin atrōx (“cruel, fierce, frightful”) + -ious.

From Latin atrōx (“cruel, fierce, frightful”) + -ious.

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Forms

more atrocious, most atrocious
Comparativemore atrocious Lesson
Superlativemost atrocious Lesson

regular

Synonyms

14 synonyms

Antonyms

3 antonyms

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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