atrocious

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /əˈtɹəʊ.ʃəs/    美 /əˈtɹoʊ.ʃəs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Frightful, evil, cruel, or monstrous.
    — Prisons have been the sites of atrocious mistreatment of prisoners.
  2. Offensive or heinous.
    — I had resolved in my own mind, that to create another like the fiend I had first made would be an act of the basest and most atrocious selfishness; and I banished from my mind every thought that could lead to a different conclusion.
  3. Very bad; abominable, disgusting.
    — Their taste in clothes is just atrocious.

词形变化

more atrocious comparative most atrocious superlative

词汇关系

近义词
abominable dreadful heinous horrible terrible
反义词
excellent superb wonderful
衍生词
atrociously atrociousness monstrocious vomitrocious
相关词
atrocity atrous

词源

From Latin atrōx (“cruel, fierce, frightful”) + -ious.
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