adjective
- Provoking horror.
- usage: "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound"
- synonyms: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, ugly
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