Atrocious: Definition and part of speech

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Atrocious

  1. a. Very grievous or violent; terrible; as, atrocious distempers.
  2. a. Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.
  3. a. Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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