Noun: atrocity u'tró-si-tee
- An act of atrocious cruelty
"The war crimes tribunal investigated reports of atrocities committed during the conflict";
- inhumanity
- The quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
"The atrocity of the war crimes horrified the international community";
- atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness
Derived forms: atrocities
Type of: cruelty, inhuman treatment, inhumaneness, inhumanity
Encyclopedia: Atrocity