• adj.
    ⦿shockingly brutal or cruel
    lexical concept
  • a grievous crime
  • a grievous offense against morality
  • murder is an atrocious crime
  • no excess was too monstrous for them to commit

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:atrocious
  2. enl:flagitious
  3. enl:grievous
  4. enl:monstrous
wn:interlingual indexili:i6201
wn:eq synonymdn:afskyelig§1græsselig§1

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • atrociousflagitiousgrievousmonstrous
  • flagitious