atrocious

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a. 残暴的, 凶恶的

发音

UK /əˈtɹəʊ.ʃəs/
AU
US /əˈtɹoʊ.ʃəs/

词形变化

more atrocious 比较级 most atrocious 最高级

教材释义与例句

形容词

凶恶的，残暴的

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Frightful, evil, cruel, or monstrous.

    狠心

    Prisons have been the sites of atrocious mistreatment of prisoners.

  2. 2.

    Offensive or heinous.

    令人发指

  3. 3.

    Very bad; abominable, disgusting.

    坏透

    Their taste in clothes is just atrocious.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 10

terrible awful horrible ugly painful dreadful monstrous horrifying unspeakable frightful

近义相关 3

bad evil alarming

词源

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

来源：wiktionary