Atrocity

Noun

 * 1)  The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.
 * 2)  An extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice.

Adjectives for Atrocity
Victorian; lugubrious; unbelievable; monstrous; unprovoked; barbaric; utter; cold¬blooded; out-of-the-way.

Verbs for Atrocity
attend with—; avenge—; commit—; defend from—; deserve—; expiate—; hide—; inflict—upon; revenge—; subject to—; —horrifies; —shocks; —stupefies.

Thesaurus
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, 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;

Etymology

 * From atrox:, from ater:

Related terms

 * atrocious