atrocious
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7.0
- 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
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- 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
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1.0
Not good in quality or below the usual standard
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1.0
Very bad or unpleasant and often serious
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1.5
Very bad or frightening in a way that makes you feel upset
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1.0
Very bad or unpleasant and causing dislike
421
4.1
Very bad or mean and not liked by people
191
1.0
Very bad and unpleasant to experience
187
7.5
Very bad or of low quality
156
5.1
Very ugly and likely to make people feel shocked or disgusted
134
3.7
Very bad and unpleasant, often causing fear or shock
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5.0
Very bad and morally wrong
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5.6
Causing shock and strong disgust because it is very bad
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7.0
Very shocking and scary, causing fear or disgust
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4.3
Very serious and obvious, showing a large fault or failure
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8.9
Very bad and obvious in a way that shocks people
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7.2
Too terrible to describe in words
56
6.7
Low quality and unpleasant
46
5.7
In very bad condition and of very poor quality
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3.9
So bad or weak that people feel angry and look down on it
34
6.8
Very bad and unacceptable, deserving strong criticism
33
3.8
Very bad or of poor quality
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8.4
Very bad and unpleasant
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7.1
Very bad or of poor quality
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7.2
Very bad or morally wrong so people strongly dislike it
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8.2
Very unpleasant and likely to make people feel strong dislike
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5.5
Very bad in quality or condition
5
6.0
Dirty and not good quality
4
8.2
Very bad and unpleasant, of poor quality
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9.2
An informal word used to say something is bad or low quality
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8.4
Very bad and disappointing to experience
1
9.3
Of very poor quality and not good
A thing that is very bad and not worth having
Antonyms
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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.