atrocious
- adjective
- /əˈtroʊʃəs/
- The lesson to be drawn about them is how atrocious the war showed their judgment to be.
- atrocious conditions
- atrocious spelling
- atrocious accent
My spelling is atrocious, but I'm guessing ventriloquism.
- My spelling is atrocious, but I'm guessing ventriloquism.
- It was just atrocious for four years, didn't make any money.
- Like the floor is just atrocious, but going to get emptying for the decorator.
- The way they think that fat people should dress is atrocious.
- I never really talked about that, but the closets were just atrocious.
- And what I realized was I was awesome at cult of personality and atrocious at scaling culture.
- They worked people for very low wages in atrocious health and safety conditions for very long hours.
- And next we move on to the back seat of the Karma, which is atrocious.
Examples
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They worked people for very low wages in atrocious health and safety conditions for very long hours.
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David has always had the most atrocious judgment.
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So no matter how atrocious your past was, you can create a different future.
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I was an atrocious student, but there was one class I was always good at, history.
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What I was not ready for was how atrocious this writing was and how boring it was too.
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This semester has been atrocious.
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They said the spelling was atrocious.
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Your behavior has been atrocious, young lady, and it seems to have started when Ren MacCormack came to town.
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While he described the atrocious conditions that debtors endured in prison, he also presented answers.
Academic text (2007) -
The service at the restaurant was absolutely atrocious, and we won't be going back.
Synonyms
Not good in quality or below the usual standard
Very bad or unpleasant and often serious
Very bad or frightening in a way that makes you feel upset
Very bad or unpleasant and causing dislike
Very bad or mean and not liked by people
Very bad or of low quality
Very ugly and likely to make people feel shocked or disgusted
Very bad and unpleasant to experience
Very bad and morally wrong
Very bad and unpleasant, often causing fear or shock
Causing shock and strong disgust because it is very bad
Very shocking and scary, causing fear or disgust
Very serious and obvious, showing a large fault or failure
Too terrible to describe in words
Very bad and obvious in a way that shocks people
Low quality and unpleasant
So bad or weak that people feel angry and look down on it
Very bad and unacceptable, deserving strong criticism
Very bad or of poor quality
Very bad or of poor quality
Very bad or morally wrong so people strongly dislike it
Very unpleasant and likely to make people feel strong dislike
Very bad and unpleasant
In very bad condition and of very poor quality
Very bad and unpleasant, of poor quality
Dirty and not good quality
Very bad in quality or condition
Very bad and disappointing to experience
An informal word used to say something is bad or low quality
A thing that is very bad and not worth having
Of very poor quality and not good
Antonyms
How Bad
Surface Forms
Etymology
Atrocious comes from the old Latin word atrox, which meant 'cruel' or 'fierce', and it shares the same root as atrocity. So atrocious can also be used to describe something that is shockingly 'very bad' or of very poor quality.