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atrocious
adjective
1 atrocious
Shockingly brutal or cruel:
— Murder is an atrocious crime.
synonyms: flagitious, grievous, monstrous.
Roget 907:
malevolent,
unbenevolent;
unbenign;
ill-disposed,
ill-intentioned,
ill-natured,
ill-conditioned,
ill-contrived;
evil-minded,
evil-disposed;
black-browed†.
malicious;
malign,
malignant;
rancorous;
despiteful,
spiteful;
mordacious,
caustic,
bitter,
envenomed,
acrimonious,
virulent;
unamiable,
uncharitable;
maleficent,
venomous,
grinding,
galling.
harsh,
disobliging;
unkind,
unfriendly,
ungracious;
inofficious†;
invidious;
uncandid;
churlish
etc.
(discourteous)
895;
surly,
sullen
etc.
901.1.
cold,
cold-blooded,
cold-hearted;
black-hearted,
hard-hearted,
flint-hearted,
marble-hearted,
stony-hearted;
hard of heart,
unnatural;
ruthless
etc.
(unmerciful)
914.1;
relentless
etc.
(revengeful)
919.
cruel;
brutal,
brutish;
savage,
savage as a bear,
savage as a tiger;
ferine†,
ferocious;
inhuman;
barbarous,
barbaric,
semibarbaric,
fell,
untamed,
tameless,
truculent,
incendiary;
bloodthirsty
etc.
(murderous)
361;
atrocious;
bloodyminded†.
fiendish,
fiendlike†;
demoniacal;
diabolic,
diabolical;
devilish,
infernal,
hellish,
Satanic;
Tartaran.
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Roget 945:
vicious;
sinful;
sinning
etc.
v.;
wicked,
iniquitous,
immoral,
unrighteous,
wrong,
criminal;
naughty,
incorrect;
unduteous†,
undutiful.
unprincipled,
lawless,
disorderly,
contra bonos mores [Lat.],
indecorous,
unseemly,
improper;
dissolute,
profligate,
scampish;
unworthy;
worthless;
desertless†;
disgraceful,
recreant;
reprehensible,
blameworthy,
uncommendable;
discreditable,
disreputable;
Sadistic.
base,
sinister,
scurvy,
foul,
gross,
vile,
black,
grave,
facinorous†,
felonious,
nefarious,
shameful,
scandalous,
infamous,
villainous,
of a deep dye,
heinous;
flagrant,
flagitious;
atrocious,
incarnate,
accursed.
Mephistophelian,
satanic,
diabolic,
hellish,
infernal,
stygian,
fiendlike†,
hell-born,
demoniacal,
devilish,
fiendish.
miscreated†,
misbegotten;
demoralized,
corrupt,
depraved.
evil-minded,
evil-disposed;
ill-conditioned;
malevolent
etc.
907;
heartless,
graceless,
shameless,
virtueless;
abandoned,
lost to virtue;
unconscionable;
sunk in iniquity,
lost in iniquity,
steeped in iniquity.
incorrigible,
irreclaimable,
obdurate,
reprobate,
past praying for;
culpable,
reprehensible
etc.
(guilty)
947.
unjustifiable;
indefensible,
inexcusable;
inexpiable,
unpardonable,
irremissible†.
weak,
frail,
lax,
infirm,
imperfect;
indiscrete;
demoralizing,
degrading.
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Polish: bezduszny, bezlitosny, okrutny, niehumanitarny, antyhumanitarny, bezuczuciowy, nieludzki, nielitościwy
2 atrocious
3 atrocious
Moby thesaurus: Draconian, Tartarean, aberrant, abject, abnormal, abominable, abusive, acute, afflictive, agonizing, animal, anthropophagous, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, backhand, backhanded, bad, baneful, barbaric, barbarous, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, bestial, biting, black, blamable, blameworthy, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, calumnious, cannibalistic, cheesy, contemptible, contumelious, cramping, criminal, cruel, cruel-hearted, crummy, crying, damnable, dark, debased, degraded, degrading, delinquent, demoniac, demoniacal, deplorable, depraved, desperate, despicable, detestable, deviant, devilish, diabolic, dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, displeasing, distasteful, distressing, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, excruciating, execrable, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fetid, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, foul, frightful, fulsome, ghastly, glaring, gnawing, grave, grievous, grim, griping, grisly, gross, gruesome, hard, hardly the thing, harrowing, harsh, hateful, heinous, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, humiliating, hurtful, hurting, icky, ignominious, illegal, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iniquitous, insolent, insulting, kill-crazy, knavish, lamentable, left-handed, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, malign, malignant, mangy, mean, measly, merciless, miserable, monstrous, murderous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, noncivilized, not done, not the thing, notorious, obnoxious, obscene, odious, off-base, off-color, offensive, out-of-line, outrageous, painful, paltry, paroxysmal, peccant, petty, piercing, pitiable, pitiful, pitiless, poignant, poky, poor, pungent, racking, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, reprobate, rotten, ruthless, sacrilegious, sad, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, severe, shabby, shameful, shameless, sharkish, sharp, shocking, shoddy, shooting, sickening, sinful, slavering, small, sordid, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, squalid, stabbing, stinging, subhuman, tameless, terrible, too bad, tormenting, torturous, tragic, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, unclean, undue, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, ungentle, unhuman, unlawful, unmentionable, unpardonable, unrighteous, unseemly, unspeakable, unsuitable, untamed, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wild, woeful, wolfish, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong, wrongful ... show more.
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