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atrocious is an adjective meaning "shockingly brutal or cruel". It carries 3 recorded senses.
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”
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”
provoking horror
“an atrocious automobile accident”
“a frightful crime of decapitation”
“an alarming, even horrifying, picture”
“war is beyond all words horrible”
“an ugly wound”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for atrocious come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.