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Atrocious vs Disquieting - What's the difference?

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Atrocious is a related term of disquieting.


As adjectives the difference between atrocious and disquieting

is that atrocious is frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous while disquieting is causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.

As a verb disquieting is

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As a noun disquieting is

the act by which someone or something is disquieted.

atrocious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous.
  • Offensive or heinous. (rfex)
  • Very bad; abominable or disgusting.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "atrocious" is often applied: crime, act, murder, condition, spelling, grammar.

    disquieting

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing mental trouble or anguish; upsetting; making uneasy.
  • *
  • *:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which someone or something is disquieted.
  • * Edward Reynolds
  • Thus we see the intuition of divine truth in minds of defiled affections, worketh not that sweet effect which is natural unto it to produce; but doubtings, terrors, and disquietings of conscience