Atrocious vs Infernal - What's the difference?
atrocious | infernal | Related terms |
Frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous.
Offensive or heinous. (rfex)
Very bad; abominable or disgusting.
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Of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish.
(by extension) Of or relating to a fire or inferno.
Stygian, gloomy.
Diabolical or fiendish.
* Addison
(as an expletive, not vulgar) Very annoying; damned.
* 1905 , Bram Stoker, The Man
Atrocious is a related term of infernal.
As adjectives the difference between atrocious and infernal
is that atrocious is frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous while infernal is of or relating to hell, or the world of the dead; hellish.As a noun infernal is
(obsolete) an inhabitant of the infernal regions.atrocious
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Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* Nouns to which "atrocious" is often applied: crime, act, murder, condition, spelling, grammar.infernal
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Adjective
(en adjective)- the instruments or abettors in such infernal dealings
- As I had to put up with the patronage and the lecturings, and the eyeglass of that infernal old woman,