- 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.
syn. abominable · dreadful · heinous · horrible · terrible
ant. excellent · superb · wonderful