Prestige vs Atrocious - What's the difference?
prestige | atrocious |
(obsolete) Delusion; illusion; trick.
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The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
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.}}
As a noun prestige
is delusion; illusion; trick.As an adjective atrocious is
frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous.prestige
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(-)- The sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture.
- Oxford has a university of very high prestige .