English-Thai Dictionary

atrocious

ADJ อัปลักษณ์  น่าเกลียด  aub-pa-lak

 

atrocious

ADJ เลว มาก  แย่มาก  leo-mak

 

atrocious

ADJ เหี้ยมโหด  โหดร้าย  เลวร้าย  ป่าเถื่อน  cruel brutal hiam-hod

 

atrociousness

N ความโหดร้าย น่ากลัว 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ATROCIOUS

a.[L. atrox, trux, fierce, cruel. ] 1. Extremely hainous, criminal or cruel; enormous; outrageous; as atrocious guilt or offense.
2. Very grievous; violent; as atrocious distempers.

 

ATROCIOUSLY

adv. In an atrocious manner; with enormous cruelty or guilt.

 

ATROCIOUSNESS

n.The quality of being enormously criminal or cruel.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ATROCIOUS

A *tro "cious, a. Etym: [L. atrox, atrocis, cruel, fierce: cf. F.atroce. ]

 

1. Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.

 

2. Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity, great atrocity. Revelations... so atrocious that nothing in history approaches them. De Quincey.

 

3. Very grievous or violent; terrible; as, atrocious distempers. [Obs. ] Cheyne.

 

Syn. -- Atrocious, Flagitious, Flagrant. Flagitious points to an act as grossly wicked and vile; as, a flagitious proposal. Flagrant marks the vivid impression made upon the mind by something strikingly wrong or erroneous; as, a flagrant misrepresentation; a flagrant violation of duty. Atrocious represents the act as springing from a violent and savage spirit. If Lord Chatham, instead of saying "the atrocious crime of being a young man, " had used either of the other two words, his irony would have lost all its point, in his celebrated reply to Sir Robert Walpole, as reported by Dr. Johnson. -- A *tro "cious *ly, adv. -- A *tro "cious *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

atrocious

a tro cious |əˈtrōSHəs əˈtroʊʃəs | ▶adjective horrifyingly wicked: atrocious cruelties. • of a very poor quality; extremely bad or unpleasant: he attempted an atrocious imitation of my English accent | atrocious weather. DERIVATIVES a tro cious ly adverb, a tro cious ness noun ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin atrox, atroc- ‘cruel ’ + -ious .

 

Oxford Dictionary

atrocious

atro |cious |əˈtrəʊʃəs | ▶adjective horrifyingly wicked: atrocious cruelties. • of a very poor quality; extremely bad or unpleasant: he attempted an atrocious imitation of my English accent | atrocious weather. DERIVATIVES atrociously adverb, atrociousness noun ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin atrox, atroc- ‘cruel ’ + -ious .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

atrocious

atrocious adjective 1 atrocious cruelties: brutal, barbaric, barbarous, savage, vicious, beastly; wicked, cruel, nasty, heinous, monstrous, vile, inhuman, black-hearted, fiendish, ghastly, horrible; abominable, outrageous, hateful, disgusting, despicable, contemptible, loathsome, odious, abhorrent, sickening, horrifying, unspeakable, execrable, egregious. ANTONYMS admirable, kindly. 2 the weather was atrocious: appalling, dreadful, terrible, very bad, unpleasant, miserable; informal abysmal, dire, rotten, lousy, godawful. ANTONYMS superb.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

atrocious

atrocious adjective 1 atrocious cruelties were committed in the name of religion: brutal, barbaric, barbarous, brutish, savage, vicious, wicked, cruel, nasty, ruthless, merciless, villainous, murderous, heinous, nefarious, monstrous, base, low, low-down, vile, inhuman, infernal, dark, black, black-hearted, fiendish, hellish, diabolical, ghastly, horrible; abominable, outrageous, offensive, hateful, disgusting, despicable, contemptible, loathsome, odious, revolting, repellent, repugnant, abhorrent, harrowing, nightmarish, gruesome, grisly, sickening, nauseating, horrifying, hideous, unspeakable, unforgivable, intolerable, beyond the pale, scandalous, flagrant, execrable; informal horrid, gross, sick-making, sick; Brit. informal beastly; archaic disgustful, loathly, scurvy; rare egregious, flagitious, cacodemonic, facinorous. ANTONYMS admirable; kindly. 2 the weather was atrocious: appalling, dreadful, terrible, very bad, unpleasant, lamentable, woeful, miserable, poor, inadequate, unsatisfactory; informal abysmal, dire, rotten, crummy, lousy, poxy, yucky, God-awful, the pits; Brit. informal shocking, duff, beastly, chronic, pants, a load of pants, rubbish, rubbishy, ropy; vulgar slang crap, crappy, chickenshit; archaic direful. ANTONYMS superb.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

atrocious

a tro cious /ətróʊʃəs /形容詞 1 ｟くだけて ｠〈物が 〉ひどい, 品質が悪い (terrible ).2 〈行為が 〉ひどい, 残虐な (cruel ).3 〈天気が 〉ひどい .～ly 副詞 残虐に (cruelly ); ひどく 〈悪いなど 〉.～ness 名詞 U 残虐性, 凶暴性 .