atrocious

atrocious has 6 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• a.. Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.
• a.. Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity.
• a.. Very grievous or violent; terrible; as, atrocious distempers.
• a.. provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"
• a.. exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
• a.. shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit"