English-Thai Dictionary

atrocity

N ความโหดร้าย น่ากลัว  การกระทำ ที่ ชั่วร้าย น่ากลัว 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ATROCITY

n.Enormous wickedness; extreme hainousness or cruelty; as the atrocity of murder.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ATROCITY

A *troc "i *ty, n.; pl. Atrocities. Etym: [F. atrocité, L. atrocitas,fr. atrox, atrocis, cruel. ]

 

1. Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty.

 

2. An atrocious or extremely cruel deed. The atrocities which attend a victory. Macaulay.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

atrocity

a troc i ty |əˈträsitē əˈtrɑsədi | ▶noun ( pl. atrocities ) an extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury: war atrocities | scenes of hardship and atrocity. • humorous a highly unpleasant or distasteful object: the house was a split-level atrocity. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘cruelty ’): from French atrocité or Latin atrocitas, from atrox, atroc- ‘cruel. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

atrocity

atro ¦city |əˈtrɒsɪti | ▶noun ( pl. atrocities ) an extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury: a textbook which detailed war atrocities. • humorous a highly unpleasant or distasteful object: atrocities in cheap red nylon. ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘cruelty ’): from French atrocité or Latin atrocitas, from atrox, atroc- ‘cruel ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

atrocity

atrocity noun such atrocity happens again and again in war: abomination, cruelty, enormity, outrage, horror, monstrosity, obscenity, violation, crime, abuse; barbarity, barbarism, brutality, savagery, inhumanity, wickedness, evil, iniquity.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

atrocity

atrocity noun 1 press reports detailed a number of atrocities: act of barbarity, act of brutality, act of savagery, act of wickedness, cruelty, abomination, enormity, outrage, horror, monstrosity, obscenity, iniquity, violation, crime, transgression, wrong, wrongdoing, offence, injury, affront, scandal, injustice, abuse; Law malfeasance, tort. 2 he observed conflict and atrocity around the globe: barbarity, barbarism, brutality, savagery, inhumanity, cruelty, wickedness, badness, baseness, evil, iniquity, horror, heinousness, villainy, lawlessness, crime, transgression, wrong, wrongdoing, injustice, abuse; Law malfeasance; rare malefaction.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

atrocity

a troc i ty /ətrɑ́səti |ətrɔ́s -/名詞 複 -ties 1 U 残虐 [残酷 ]さ, 凶悪性, 極悪さ .2 C 〖-ties 〗(特に戦時などの )残虐行為 .