atrocity

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

noun

1. the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
• Syn:
atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness
• Derivationally related forms:
barbarous (for: barbarousness), atrocious (for: atrociousness), atrocious, heinous (for: heinousness)
• Hypernyms:
inhumaneness, inhumanity
2. an act of atrocious cruelty
• Syn:
inhumanity
• Derivationally related forms:
atrocious
• Hypernyms:
cruelty, inhuman treatment
• Hyponyms:
brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagery, outrage, enormity

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  inhumanity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness