About The Word Atrocity

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Atrocity

Atrocity Meaning & Definition
Atrocity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Atrocity?

[n] an act of atrocious cruelty
[n] the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane

Synonyms | Synonyms for Atrocity: atrociousness | barbarity | barbarousness | heinousness | inhumanity

Related Terms | Find terms related to Atrocity: abomination | abuse | acuteness | affront | animality | aspersion | atrociousness | awfulness | bad | bane | banefulness | barbarity | befoulment | blight | bloodlust | breach | brickbat | brutality | contempt | contumely | corruption | crime | crime against humanity | cruelty | crying evil | cut | damage | deadly sin | defilement | delinquency | dereliction | desecration | despite | despoliation | destruction | destructiveness | detriment | direness | disgrace | disservice | dreadfulness | dump | enormity | error | evil | extremity | failure | fault | felony | ferociousness | fierceness | flagitiousness | flout | flouting | force | furiousness | genocide | gibe | great wrong | grievance | grimness | gross injustice | guilty act | harm | harshness | havoc | heavy sin | heinousness | hideousness | horribleness | horridness | horror | humiliation | hurt | ignominy | ill | ill-treatment | ill-usage | ill-use | impetuosity | imposition | impropriety | inclemency | indignity | indiscretion | inexpiable sin | infamy | infection | inhumanity | iniquity | injury | injustice | insult | intensity | jeer | jeering | knavery | lapse | malefaction | malfeasance | malignity | maltreatment | malum | mercilessness | mindlessness | minor wrong | miscarriage of justice | mischief | misdeed | misdemeanor | misfeasance | mistreatment | mock | mockery | molestation | monstrousness | mortal sin | murderousness | nonfeasance | obliquity | offense | omission | outrage | peccadillo | peccancy | pitilessness | pity | poison | pollution | profanation | put-down | raw deal | reprobacy | rigor | roughness | sacrilege | savagery | scandal | scoff | scurrility | severity | shame | sharpness | sin | sin of commission | sin of omission | sinful act | slip | taunt | terrible thing | terribleness | terrorism | the worst | tort | toxin | transgression | trespass | trip | uncomplimentary remark | ungentleness | unutterable sin | vandalism | vehemence | venial sin | venom | vexation | viciousness | villainy | violation | violence | virulence | wickedness | woe | wrong

See Also | barbarism | barbarity | brutality | cruelty | enormity | inhuman treatment | inhumaneness | inhumanity | outrage | savagery

Atrocity In Webster's Dictionary

\A*troc"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Atrocities}. [F. atrocit['e], L. atrocitas, fr. atrox, atrocis, cruel.] 1. Enormous wickedness; extreme heinousness or cruelty. 2. An atrocious or extremely cruel deed. The atrocities which attend a victory. --Macaulay.

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