Definition of atrocious in English:

atrocious

adjective əˈtrəʊʃəsəˈtroʊʃəs

1Horrifyingly wicked.
凶恶的；残暴的
atrocious cruelties
暴行。
Example sentencesExamples
- Upon returning to the United States, after having seen atrocious abuses first hand, he says that he could not stay silent.
- In the old orthodox society the Sati system of widows mounting the funeral pyre of their husbands was an atrocious practice.
- The atrocious acts of terror in New York have shocked the world.
- They watched the hideous spectacle, stunned by the monster's atrocious acts.
- This helps to explain why murder is such an atrocious crime.
- You can't let that psychological battle have the victim all of a sudden take on the guilt for the atrocious acts of the perpetrator.
- In practice, this meant all but the most atrocious offenses got mere wrist slaps.
- Despite the country's atrocious human rights records, the world community has done very little in response.
- It was possibly the most atrocious monstrosity every pulled off on American soil.
- Our grandfathers witnessed the most atrocious period ever to have occurred; hopefully nothing like that will ever happen again.
- He did an atrocious act and he got what he wanted, lots of publicity for his cause and the right to die a martyr.
- Let us picture a small, comparatively weak, nation, governed by someone who commits any number of atrocious crimes to stay in power.
- That such a policy may have stirred up the enmity which resulted in last week's atrocious acts of violence should not be dismissed out of hand.
- Who can say they wouldn't do something atrocious if in an extreme situation?
- If the tour were cancelled, a valuable opportunity to raise public awareness of the atrocious regime would be lost.
- The people who are committing these atrocious acts are few, but they are mainly foreigners.
- I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but soldiers and bandits.
- Jones Griffiths and others tried to interest the news agencies in pictures that told the truth about that atrocious war.
- Nor was Stalin's behaviour in Ukraine, however atrocious, on a par with Hitler's total extermination strategy.
- We are exporting atrocious suffering, disease and death in poor countries where controls are not implemented.
- Women and children there are subjected to atrocious harassment and torture, particularly in the workplace.
- Since no Coalition Forces were allowed into the city, they were able to get away with those atrocious acts without much trouble.
Synonyms
brutal, barbaric, barbarous, brutish, savage, vicious, wicked, cruel, nasty, ruthless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible
abominable, outrageous, offensive, hateful, disgusting, despicable, contemptible, loathsome, odious, revolting, repellent, repugnant, abhorrent, harrowing, nightmarish, gruesome, grisly, sickening, nauseating, horrifying, hideous, unspeakable, unforgivable, intolerable, beyond the pale, scandalous, flagrant, execrable
informal horrid, gross, sick-making, sick
British informal beastly
archaic disgustful, loathly, scurvy
rare egregious, flagitious, cacodemonic, facinorous
1. 1.1 Of a very poor quality; extremely bad or unpleasant.
  劣质的；恶劣的，糟糕的
  he attempted an atrocious imitation of my English accent
  他对我的英国口音作了糟糕的模仿。
  atrocious weather
  恶劣的天气。
  Example sentencesExamples
  His timing is atrocious.
  No more seedy bars, inept passes or atrocious chat-up lines.
  All soccer fixtures were cancelled at the weekend due to the atrocious weather conditions.
  The generally poor and occasionally atrocious quality of the writing doesn't help.
  The writing was atrocious, scribbled in black ink, and Karen had to focus on each word to decipher it.
  The supporting cast was atrocious and really brought the overall quality of the movie down with it.
  It's unforgivably bad journalism, laughably poor sub-editing, and atrocious proof-reading.
  But we poor deluded souls keep colouring our hair in the wildest and most atrocious colours possible.
  The weather conditions were atrocious, so thankfully the sale was indoors.
  I don't think I've been getting enough exercise and my posture is atrocious.
  I did notice that the spelling in most of the unwanted e-mails I happen to read is generally atrocious.
  Also, I have witnessed the most atrocious driving by some Bradford taxi drivers, placing other road users in jeopardy.
  We paid £3,000 for an all-inclusive holiday and the food was atrocious.
  Of course, the dialogue is still atrocious, and the actors' delivery of it is poor.
  I have written before about how atrocious an assumption this is.
  The policy is atrocious and an insult to soldiers and their families.
  But it was terrible for everyone, and people not in my cohort also told me the first year is always atrocious.
  The weather was atrocious, with heavy snow and high winds.
  I have come across parents like him who simply shrug their shoulders when you outline their children's atrocious behaviour.
  Frankly, I'm disgusted by the atrocious writing I have to read every day as part of my job.
  Synonyms
  appalling, dreadful, terrible, very bad, unpleasant, lamentable, woeful, miserable, poor, inadequate, unsatisfactory
  informal abysmal, dire, rotten, crummy, lousy, poxy, yucky, God-awful, the pits
  British informal shocking, duff, beastly, chronic, pants, a load of pants, rubbish, rubbishy, ropy
  vulgar slang crap, crappy, chickenshit
  archaic direful

Derivatives

atrociously

adverbəˈtrəʊʃəsli

90 per cent of people here drive atrociously.
Example sentencesExamples
- But she'd told me calmly that I was grounded the whole vacation for behaving atrociously.
- After making my first tuition payment last week, I'm thinking of launching a one-man crusade against the atrociously high cost of higher education today.
- As I have set out earlier, we have both suffered atrociously in the past and substantially depend on one another.
- Given the way mothers have been atrociously treated, who can blame young women for not being prepared to take the risk.
- The drinks are atrociously overpriced and under-strong.
- Factory-farmed chickens are transported and slaughtered under atrociously inhumane conditions, says Weisberg.

atrociousness

nounəˈtrəʊʃəsnəs

Stravinsky was, in Adorno's opinion, evading existentialist man's duty to confront his own times in all their complexity and atrociousness.
Example sentencesExamples
- In her autobiography she said curiosity had made her take the job, but 60 years on she admits she failed to let herself see the atrociousness of the regime she worked for.
- In the opinion of the Chamber, there is no doubt that considering their undeniable scale, their systematic nature and their atrociousness, the massacres were aimed at exterminating the group that was targeted.
- Despite its revulsion at the atrociousness of the law, the appeals court did not take the next logical step and void the law completely.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin atrox, atroc- 'cruel' + -ious.

Whereas nowadays atrocious tends to describe something such as bad weather or poor English, it used to be a stronger word which referred to great savagery, cruelty, or wickedness, as in Charles Darwin's reference to ‘Atrocious acts which can only take place in a slave country’ (1845). The source of the word was Latin atrox ‘fierce or cruel’, based on ater ‘black’ and literally meaning ‘black-looking’. Atrocity (mid 16th century) has not had its sense weakened in the same way.

Rhymes

ferocious, precocious

Definition of atrocious in US English:

atrocious

adjectiveəˈtroʊʃəsəˈtrōSHəs

1Horrifyingly wicked.
凶恶的；残暴的
atrocious cruelties
暴行。
Example sentencesExamples
- Upon returning to the United States, after having seen atrocious abuses first hand, he says that he could not stay silent.
- They watched the hideous spectacle, stunned by the monster's atrocious acts.
- He did an atrocious act and he got what he wanted, lots of publicity for his cause and the right to die a martyr.
- Who can say they wouldn't do something atrocious if in an extreme situation?
- In practice, this meant all but the most atrocious offenses got mere wrist slaps.
- Our grandfathers witnessed the most atrocious period ever to have occurred; hopefully nothing like that will ever happen again.
- Nor was Stalin's behaviour in Ukraine, however atrocious, on a par with Hitler's total extermination strategy.
- In the old orthodox society the Sati system of widows mounting the funeral pyre of their husbands was an atrocious practice.
- Despite the country's atrocious human rights records, the world community has done very little in response.
- Let us picture a small, comparatively weak, nation, governed by someone who commits any number of atrocious crimes to stay in power.
- That such a policy may have stirred up the enmity which resulted in last week's atrocious acts of violence should not be dismissed out of hand.
- It was possibly the most atrocious monstrosity every pulled off on American soil.
- The people who are committing these atrocious acts are few, but they are mainly foreigners.
- Jones Griffiths and others tried to interest the news agencies in pictures that told the truth about that atrocious war.
- We are exporting atrocious suffering, disease and death in poor countries where controls are not implemented.
- Women and children there are subjected to atrocious harassment and torture, particularly in the workplace.
- I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but soldiers and bandits.
- This helps to explain why murder is such an atrocious crime.
- Since no Coalition Forces were allowed into the city, they were able to get away with those atrocious acts without much trouble.
- You can't let that psychological battle have the victim all of a sudden take on the guilt for the atrocious acts of the perpetrator.
- If the tour were cancelled, a valuable opportunity to raise public awareness of the atrocious regime would be lost.
- The atrocious acts of terror in New York have shocked the world.
Synonyms
brutal, barbaric, barbarous, brutish, savage, vicious, wicked, cruel, nasty, ruthless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible
1. 1.1 Of a very poor quality; extremely bad or unpleasant.
  劣质的；恶劣的，糟糕的
  he attempted an atrocious imitation of my English accent
  他对我的英国口音作了糟糕的模仿。
  atrocious weather
  恶劣的天气。
  Example sentencesExamples
  His timing is atrocious.
  No more seedy bars, inept passes or atrocious chat-up lines.
  The supporting cast was atrocious and really brought the overall quality of the movie down with it.
  All soccer fixtures were cancelled at the weekend due to the atrocious weather conditions.
  It's unforgivably bad journalism, laughably poor sub-editing, and atrocious proof-reading.
  Of course, the dialogue is still atrocious, and the actors' delivery of it is poor.
  We paid £3,000 for an all-inclusive holiday and the food was atrocious.
  The writing was atrocious, scribbled in black ink, and Karen had to focus on each word to decipher it.
  The policy is atrocious and an insult to soldiers and their families.
  I don't think I've been getting enough exercise and my posture is atrocious.
  I did notice that the spelling in most of the unwanted e-mails I happen to read is generally atrocious.
  Frankly, I'm disgusted by the atrocious writing I have to read every day as part of my job.
  I have written before about how atrocious an assumption this is.
  But it was terrible for everyone, and people not in my cohort also told me the first year is always atrocious.
  But we poor deluded souls keep colouring our hair in the wildest and most atrocious colours possible.
  Also, I have witnessed the most atrocious driving by some Bradford taxi drivers, placing other road users in jeopardy.
  The weather conditions were atrocious, so thankfully the sale was indoors.
  The generally poor and occasionally atrocious quality of the writing doesn't help.
  I have come across parents like him who simply shrug their shoulders when you outline their children's atrocious behaviour.
  The weather was atrocious, with heavy snow and high winds.
  Synonyms
  appalling, dreadful, terrible, very bad, unpleasant, lamentable, woeful, miserable, poor, inadequate, unsatisfactory

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin atrox, atroc- ‘cruel’ + -ious.

单词	atrocious
释义	Definition of atrocious in English: atrocious adjective əˈtrəʊʃəsəˈtroʊʃəs 1Horrifyingly wicked. 凶恶的；残暴的 atrocious cruelties 暴行。 Example sentencesExamples Upon returning to the United States, after having seen atrocious abuses first hand, he says that he could not stay silent. In the old orthodox society the Sati system of widows mounting the funeral pyre of their husbands was an atrocious practice. The atrocious acts of terror in New York have shocked the world. They watched the hideous spectacle, stunned by the monster's atrocious acts. This helps to explain why murder is such an atrocious crime. You can't let that psychological battle have the victim all of a sudden take on the guilt for the atrocious acts of the perpetrator. In practice, this meant all but the most atrocious offenses got mere wrist slaps. Despite the country's atrocious human rights records, the world community has done very little in response. It was possibly the most atrocious monstrosity every pulled off on American soil. Our grandfathers witnessed the most atrocious period ever to have occurred; hopefully nothing like that will ever happen again. He did an atrocious act and he got what he wanted, lots of publicity for his cause and the right to die a martyr. Let us picture a small, comparatively weak, nation, governed by someone who commits any number of atrocious crimes to stay in power. That such a policy may have stirred up the enmity which resulted in last week's atrocious acts of violence should not be dismissed out of hand. Who can say they wouldn't do something atrocious if in an extreme situation? If the tour were cancelled, a valuable opportunity to raise public awareness of the atrocious regime would be lost. The people who are committing these atrocious acts are few, but they are mainly foreigners. I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but soldiers and bandits. Jones Griffiths and others tried to interest the news agencies in pictures that told the truth about that atrocious war. Nor was Stalin's behaviour in Ukraine, however atrocious, on a par with Hitler's total extermination strategy. We are exporting atrocious suffering, disease and death in poor countries where controls are not implemented. Women and children there are subjected to atrocious harassment and torture, particularly in the workplace. Since no Coalition Forces were allowed into the city, they were able to get away with those atrocious acts without much trouble. Synonyms brutal, barbaric, barbarous, brutish, savage, vicious, wicked, cruel, nasty, ruthless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible abominable, outrageous, offensive, hateful, disgusting, despicable, contemptible, loathsome, odious, revolting, repellent, repugnant, abhorrent, harrowing, nightmarish, gruesome, grisly, sickening, nauseating, horrifying, hideous, unspeakable, unforgivable, intolerable, beyond the pale, scandalous, flagrant, execrable informal horrid, gross, sick-making, sick British informal beastly archaic disgustful, loathly, scurvy rare egregious, flagitious, cacodemonic, facinorous 1.1 Of a very poor quality; extremely bad or unpleasant. 劣质的；恶劣的，糟糕的 he attempted an atrocious imitation of my English accent 他对我的英国口音作了糟糕的模仿。 atrocious weather 恶劣的天气。 Example sentencesExamples His timing is atrocious. No more seedy bars, inept passes or atrocious chat-up lines. All soccer fixtures were cancelled at the weekend due to the atrocious weather conditions. The generally poor and occasionally atrocious quality of the writing doesn't help. The writing was atrocious, scribbled in black ink, and Karen had to focus on each word to decipher it. The supporting cast was atrocious and really brought the overall quality of the movie down with it. It's unforgivably bad journalism, laughably poor sub-editing, and atrocious proof-reading. But we poor deluded souls keep colouring our hair in the wildest and most atrocious colours possible. The weather conditions were atrocious, so thankfully the sale was indoors. I don't think I've been getting enough exercise and my posture is atrocious. I did notice that the spelling in most of the unwanted e-mails I happen to read is generally atrocious. Also, I have witnessed the most atrocious driving by some Bradford taxi drivers, placing other road users in jeopardy. We paid £3,000 for an all-inclusive holiday and the food was atrocious. Of course, the dialogue is still atrocious, and the actors' delivery of it is poor. I have written before about how atrocious an assumption this is. The policy is atrocious and an insult to soldiers and their families. But it was terrible for everyone, and people not in my cohort also told me the first year is always atrocious. The weather was atrocious, with heavy snow and high winds. I have come across parents like him who simply shrug their shoulders when you outline their children's atrocious behaviour. Frankly, I'm disgusted by the atrocious writing I have to read every day as part of my job. Synonyms appalling, dreadful, terrible, very bad, unpleasant, lamentable, woeful, miserable, poor, inadequate, unsatisfactory informal abysmal, dire, rotten, crummy, lousy, poxy, yucky, God-awful, the pits British informal shocking, duff, beastly, chronic, pants, a load of pants, rubbish, rubbishy, ropy vulgar slang crap, crappy, chickenshit archaic direful Derivatives atrociously adverbəˈtrəʊʃəsli 90 per cent of people here drive atrociously. Example sentencesExamples But she'd told me calmly that I was grounded the whole vacation for behaving atrociously. After making my first tuition payment last week, I'm thinking of launching a one-man crusade against the atrociously high cost of higher education today. As I have set out earlier, we have both suffered atrociously in the past and substantially depend on one another. Given the way mothers have been atrociously treated, who can blame young women for not being prepared to take the risk. The drinks are atrociously overpriced and under-strong. Factory-farmed chickens are transported and slaughtered under atrociously inhumane conditions, says Weisberg. atrociousness nounəˈtrəʊʃəsnəs Stravinsky was, in Adorno's opinion, evading existentialist man's duty to confront his own times in all their complexity and atrociousness. Example sentencesExamples In her autobiography she said curiosity had made her take the job, but 60 years on she admits she failed to let herself see the atrociousness of the regime she worked for. In the opinion of the Chamber, there is no doubt that considering their undeniable scale, their systematic nature and their atrociousness, the massacres were aimed at exterminating the group that was targeted. Despite its revulsion at the atrociousness of the law, the appeals court did not take the next logical step and void the law completely. Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin atrox, atroc- 'cruel' + -ious. Whereas nowadays atrocious tends to describe something such as bad weather or poor English, it used to be a stronger word which referred to great savagery, cruelty, or wickedness, as in Charles Darwin's reference to ‘Atrocious acts which can only take place in a slave country’ (1845). The source of the word was Latin atrox ‘fierce or cruel’, based on ater ‘black’ and literally meaning ‘black-looking’. Atrocity (mid 16th century) has not had its sense weakened in the same way. Rhymes ferocious, precocious Definition of atrocious in US English: atrocious adjectiveəˈtroʊʃəsəˈtrōSHəs 1Horrifyingly wicked. 凶恶的；残暴的 atrocious cruelties 暴行。 Example sentencesExamples Upon returning to the United States, after having seen atrocious abuses first hand, he says that he could not stay silent. They watched the hideous spectacle, stunned by the monster's atrocious acts. He did an atrocious act and he got what he wanted, lots of publicity for his cause and the right to die a martyr. Who can say they wouldn't do something atrocious if in an extreme situation? In practice, this meant all but the most atrocious offenses got mere wrist slaps. Our grandfathers witnessed the most atrocious period ever to have occurred; hopefully nothing like that will ever happen again. Nor was Stalin's behaviour in Ukraine, however atrocious, on a par with Hitler's total extermination strategy. In the old orthodox society the Sati system of widows mounting the funeral pyre of their husbands was an atrocious practice. Despite the country's atrocious human rights records, the world community has done very little in response. Let us picture a small, comparatively weak, nation, governed by someone who commits any number of atrocious crimes to stay in power. That such a policy may have stirred up the enmity which resulted in last week's atrocious acts of violence should not be dismissed out of hand. It was possibly the most atrocious monstrosity every pulled off on American soil. The people who are committing these atrocious acts are few, but they are mainly foreigners. Jones Griffiths and others tried to interest the news agencies in pictures that told the truth about that atrocious war. We are exporting atrocious suffering, disease and death in poor countries where controls are not implemented. Women and children there are subjected to atrocious harassment and torture, particularly in the workplace. I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but soldiers and bandits. This helps to explain why murder is such an atrocious crime. Since no Coalition Forces were allowed into the city, they were able to get away with those atrocious acts without much trouble. You can't let that psychological battle have the victim all of a sudden take on the guilt for the atrocious acts of the perpetrator. If the tour were cancelled, a valuable opportunity to raise public awareness of the atrocious regime would be lost. The atrocious acts of terror in New York have shocked the world. Synonyms brutal, barbaric, barbarous, brutish, savage, vicious, wicked, cruel, nasty, ruthless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible 1.1 Of a very poor quality; extremely bad or unpleasant. 劣质的；恶劣的，糟糕的 he attempted an atrocious imitation of my English accent 他对我的英国口音作了糟糕的模仿。 atrocious weather 恶劣的天气。 Example sentencesExamples His timing is atrocious. No more seedy bars, inept passes or atrocious chat-up lines. The supporting cast was atrocious and really brought the overall quality of the movie down with it. All soccer fixtures were cancelled at the weekend due to the atrocious weather conditions. It's unforgivably bad journalism, laughably poor sub-editing, and atrocious proof-reading. Of course, the dialogue is still atrocious, and the actors' delivery of it is poor. We paid £3,000 for an all-inclusive holiday and the food was atrocious. The writing was atrocious, scribbled in black ink, and Karen had to focus on each word to decipher it. The policy is atrocious and an insult to soldiers and their families. I don't think I've been getting enough exercise and my posture is atrocious. I did notice that the spelling in most of the unwanted e-mails I happen to read is generally atrocious. Frankly, I'm disgusted by the atrocious writing I have to read every day as part of my job. I have written before about how atrocious an assumption this is. But it was terrible for everyone, and people not in my cohort also told me the first year is always atrocious. But we poor deluded souls keep colouring our hair in the wildest and most atrocious colours possible. Also, I have witnessed the most atrocious driving by some Bradford taxi drivers, placing other road users in jeopardy. The weather conditions were atrocious, so thankfully the sale was indoors. The generally poor and occasionally atrocious quality of the writing doesn't help. I have come across parents like him who simply shrug their shoulders when you outline their children's atrocious behaviour. The weather was atrocious, with heavy snow and high winds. Synonyms appalling, dreadful, terrible, very bad, unpleasant, lamentable, woeful, miserable, poor, inadequate, unsatisfactory Origin Mid 17th century: from Latin atrox, atroc- ‘cruel’ + -ious.
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