Distasteful vs Atrocious - What's the difference?
distasteful | atrocious | Related terms |
Having a bad or foul taste.
(figuratively) Unpleasant.
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Frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous.
Offensive or heinous. (rfex)
Very bad; abominable or disgusting.
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Distasteful is a related term of atrocious.
As adjectives the difference between distasteful and atrocious
is that distasteful is having a bad or foul taste while atrocious is frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous.distasteful
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Alternative forms
* distastefull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}