ATROCITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does atrocity mean?
• ATROCITY (noun)
The noun ATROCITY has 2 senses:
1. the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
2. an act of atrocious cruelty
Familiarity information: ATROCITY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ATROCITY (noun)
Meaning:
The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
atrociousness; atrocity; barbarity; barbarousness; heinousness
Hypernyms ("atrocity" is a kind of...):
inhumaneness; inhumanity (the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others)
Meaning:
An act of atrocious cruelty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
atrocity; inhumanity
Hypernyms ("atrocity" is a kind of...):
cruelty; inhuman treatment (a cruel act; a deliberate infliction of pain and suffering)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "atrocity"):
barbarism; barbarity; brutality; savagery (a brutal barbarous savage act)
outrage (a wantonly cruel act)
enormity (an act of extreme wickedness)