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Meaning of atrocious


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  atrocious
      adj 1: 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" [syn: {atrocious}, {flagitious}, {grievous},
             {monstrous}]
      2: 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" [syn:
         {atrocious}, {abominable}, {awful}, {dreadful}, {painful},
         {terrible}, {unspeakable}]
      3: provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a
         frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even
         horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"-
         Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: {atrocious},
         {frightful}, {horrifying}, {horrible}, {ugly}]


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