Atrocious[Adj] Extremely savage or evil, cruel. 2. Exceptionally bad abominable atrocious decor, disgraceful, grossly offensive.

[Adv] atrociousness N.



Context Clues: N/A but my logic is that it is disgussing or gross, my Mom used it in describing my room, stuffed birds are gross and dirty; like taxidermy



(44, in Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh DuMas) " The items he has picked up on clearance tables range from merely useless, like his portable siren, to truly atrocious, like birds made of felt"



My use of the word: A. What an atrocious hat!

B. The service in the restraunt was atrocious.



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