Synonyms of the word atrocious


ATROCIOUSABOMINABLE - ALARMING - AWFUL - BAD - DREADFUL - EVIL - FLAGITIOUS - FRIGHTFUL - GRIEVOUS - HEINOUS - HORRIBLE - HORRIFYING - MONSTROUS - PAINFUL - TERRIBLE - UGLY - UNSPEAKABLE

atrocious

  • adj. Frightful, evil, cruel, or monstrous.
  • adj. Offensive or heinous.
  • adj. Very bad; abominable, disgusting.

abominable

  • adj. Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful;…
  • adj. (obsolete) Excessive, large (used as an intensifier).
  • adj. Very bad or inferior.
  • adj. Disagreeable or unpleasant.

alarming

  • v. present participle of alarm.
  • adj. causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.

awful

  • adj. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
  • adj. (now rare) Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive.
  • adj. Struck or filled with awe.
  • adj. (obsolete) Terror-stricken.
  • adj. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
  • adj. Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
  • adj. Very bad.
  • adv. (colloquial, US, Canada) Very, extremely.

bad

  • adj. Not good; unfavorable; negative.
  • adj. Not suitable or fitting.
  • adj. Seemingly non-appropriate, in manners, etc.
  • adj. Unhealthy.
  • adj. Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
  • adj. Evil; wicked.
  • adj. Faulty; not functional.
  • adj. (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
  • adj. (of breath) Malodorous, foul.
  • adj. (informal) Bold and daring.
  • adj. (hip-hop slang) good, superlative.
  • adj. (of a need or want) Severe, urgent.
  • adv. (now colloquial) Badly.
  • n. (slang) Error, mistake.
  • n. (countable, uncountable, economics) An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted…
  • adj. (slang) Fantastic.
  • v. (archaic) Alternative past tense of bid. See bade.
  • v. (Britain, dialect, transitive) To shell (a walnut).

dreadful

  • adj. (obsolete) Full of dread, whether.
  • adj. Full of something causing dread, whether.
  • n. A shocker: a report of a crime written in a provokingly lurid style.
  • n. A journal or broadsheet printing such reports.
  • n. A shocking or sensational crime.

evil

  • adj. Intending to harm; malevolent.
  • adj. Morally corrupt.
  • adj. Unpleasant, as in 'an evil smell'.
  • adj. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
  • adj. (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
  • adj. (computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice.
  • n. Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
  • n. Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes…
  • n. (obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).

flagitious

  • adj. (literary) (of people) Guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.
  • adj. (literary) Extremely brutal or wicked; heinous, monstrous.

frightful

  • adj. (obsolete) Full of fright, whether.
  • adj. Full of something causing fright, whether.

grievous

  • adj. Causing grief, pain or sorrow.
  • adj. Serious, grave, dire or dangerous.

heinous

  • adj. Totally reprehensible.

horrible

  • n. A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as…
  • n. A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
  • adj. Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
  • adj. Tremendously bad.

horrifying

  • v. present participle of horrify.
  • adj. Tending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific.

monstrous

  • adj. Hideous or frightful.
  • adj. Enormously large.
  • adj. Freakish or grotesque.
  • adj. Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
  • adj. (obsolete) Marvellous; strange.

painful

  • adj. Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
  • adj. Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
  • adj. Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
  • adj. (now rare) Painstaking; careful; industrious.
  • adj. (informal) Very bad, poor.

terrible

  • adj. Dreadful; causing alarm and fear.
  • adj. Formidable, powerful.
  • adj. Intense; extreme in degree or extent.
  • adj. Unpleasant; disagreeable.
  • adj. Very bad; lousy.

ugly

  • adj. Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.
  • adj. Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
  • adj. Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
  • adj. Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
  • adj. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.
  • n. (slang, uncountable) Ugliness.
  • n. (slang) An ugly person or thing.
  • n. (Britain, informal, dated) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
  • v. (transitive, nonstandard) To make ugly (sometimes with up).

unspeakable

  • adj. Incapable of being spoken or uttered; unutterable; ineffable; inexpressible.
  • adj. Unfit or not permitted to be spoken or described.
  • adj. Extremely bad or objectionable.

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