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atrocious
Synonyms and Antonyms of atrocious
- an atrocious crime that shocked even hardened members of the police force
alarming, bloodcurdling, dire, direful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, gut-wrenching, hair-raising, heart-stopping, intimidating, redoubtable, scary, terrifying
abhorrent, deplorable, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, loathsome, nauseating, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening
abominable, evil, foul, heinous, noxious, odious, unspeakable, vile
- The picture quality on the pirated DVD was atrocious.
great, marvelous (or marvellous), wonderful
- the atrocious treatment of prisoners at the camps
hard-hearted, ironhearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonyhearted, unfeeling
bloodthirsty, cutthroat, murderous, sanguinary, sanguine
catty, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, vindictive
draconian, draconic, hardhanded, harsh, heavy-handed, oppressive
red in tooth and claw
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