What's the difference between atrocious and ferocious?

Atrocious


Definition:

  • (a.) Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.
  • (a.) Characterized by, or expressing, great atrocity.
  • (a.) Very grievous or violent; terrible; as, atrocious distempers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Giving in to fear in the wake of the atrocious attacks on Paris will not protect anyone,” Amnesty director John Dalhuisen said in the aftermath of the attacks.
  • (2) I know of our history and no political power in the EU is trying to do any of the atrocious things that were done by Hitler and his followers.
  • (3) "This atrocious act will not be tolerated and such violence has no place in Canada.
  • (4) It also brings newcomers to neighbourhoods with nonwhite populations, sometimes with atrocious consequences.
  • (5) Fox News website embeds unedited Isis video showing brutal murder of Jordanian pilot Read more Media organisations face a particular dilemma, as the atrociousness arguably makes the crimes even more newsworthy.
  • (6) God knows what our losses were, must have run into thousands.” In fact, few allied troops ever made it much further than a few hundred metres from the shore, and the battle soon descended into trench warfare, in truly atrocious conditions.
  • (7) I’m always subjected to atrocious Irish accents and jokes about being able to drink everyone else under the table; and any time I mention potatoes I’ll get “oh of course you’re talking about potatoes”!
  • (8) "Any parallel with the affairs of the Berlusconi family is therefore not only inappropriate and incomprehensible but also offensive to the memory of those who were deprived of all rights and, after atrocious and unspeakable suffering, deprived of their lives."
  • (9) Celtic 0-2 Inverness CT (Foran 35) "SUPER CALEY GO BALLISTIC, CELTIC ARE ATROCIOUS," may well get a second airing tomorrow.
  • (10) Human Rights Watch says there is no rule of law in the country and that its human rights record "remains atrocious and has only deteriorated further in the past year".
  • (11) After last week’s atrocious events in Paris , which claimed the lives of 17 innocent people including journalists, two policemen and a policewoman, a maintenance worker and four Jewish shoppers at a kosher supermarket, France, home to the largest Jewish population in Europe – somewhere between 500,000 and 600,000 people – faces a brutal reckoning about the future of its second largest ethno-religious minority.
  • (12) "But if I want to judge Vladimir Putin as a politician, these are my criticisms: our country is in an atrocious condition.
  • (13) Amid signs of mounting pressure on both sides to end the conflict, the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, who is in the Middle East in an attempt to help broker a ceasefire, condemned the Israeli assault in Shuji'iya as an "atrocious action".
  • (14) You see that time and time again in the interviews, folks felt that was just campaign rhetoric and there was just no way that they’d take their healthcare away, and now they’re threatened and there are a lot of frightened people.” Beshear went on to predict that if Trump was successful in passing the AHCA, which he derided as “an atrocious bill”, that there would be “backlash” at the polls.
  • (15) And what was Cameron thinking – that decimating the Syrian army would make life harder for the Islamists, who are palpably the bigger and more atrocious threat?
  • (16) It is extremely regrettable that the very cruel and atrocious case occurred,” Kishida told Kennedy, according to Nippon Television Network.
  • (17) Communist leaders had always used an atrocious double-speak which meant its opposite.
  • (18) Describing it as "a truly horrendous incident", Zeid said in a statement : "It is the duty of states to investigate such atrocious crimes, bring the perpetrators to justice, and even more importantly to do more to prevent them from happening in the first place.
  • (19) Super Caley haven’t gone ballistic and Celtic are anything but atrocious - they lead 3-0.
  • (20) "Only two teams through to the second round so far, and the two last European winners have looked atrocious.

Ferocious


Definition:

  • (a.) Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; ravenous; rapacious; as, ferocious look or features; a ferocious lion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He has opinions on everything, and he hurls them at you so enthusiastically, so ferociously, that before long you feel battered.
  • (2) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
  • (3) But Klein – who over the years has endured pro-corporate backlash of her two earlier books and a ferocious assault for criticising Israel’s conduct against the Palestinians, says she is ready for it.
  • (4) In the past year the Turkish military has been engaged in a ferocious conflict with the country’s Kurdish minority.
  • (5) Either way, he said the harshness of the current campaign reflected Xi’s nervousness as he attempted bold and potentially destabilising reforms of the economy , the military and the Communist party itself, through a ferocious anti-corruption campaign .
  • (6) It passed into the statute books on Saturday after months of furious and often ferocious debate, protest and violence.
  • (7) While Liverpool seemed stretched by cruel successive away fixtures, Chelsea arguably mustered some of their finest attacking football of the campaign through that ferocious opening period.
  • (8) A man of such ferocious spirit should not be remembered as a reactionary prude.
  • (9) Admittedly Mourinho's side rallied after Yoan Gouffran headed Yohan Cabaye's ferociously whipped in free kick past Petr Cech but Newcastle's Mathieu Debuchy and Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa especially were defending brilliantly and Chelsea came undone on the counter-attack as a fine cross from the underrated Vurnon Anita prefaced Loïc Rémy's wonderful finish.
  • (10) The Zintanis hold the airport and a wedge-shaped area in the south and west, all of it now the scene of ferocious violence.
  • (11) Their European tour , which finishes in London on Monday, is sold out and there seems to be a general consensus that Pixies, who suddenly find themselves with everything to prove, are playing ferociously.
  • (12) They felt the opposition would be in Washington and did not anticipate the public would take on Obama as ferociously as they have."
  • (13) UK watchdog accused of bowing to pressure from 'big six' energy suppliers Read more However, it was not temporary precipitation that meant the CMA produced a damp squib but months of ferocious lobbying by the big six to ensure the industry is left largely in its existing state.
  • (14) Porters, rickshaw drivers, nurses, patients, students, bureaucrats, doctors and itinerant holy men all stand to eat their heavily subsidised meals, priced at no more than 5 rupees (5p) and eaten at ferocious speed with fingers from tin plates.
  • (15) Hague suggests that the Lib Dems are just posturing when they claim they are fighting ferociously with the Tories.
  • (16) On a modest street in a rundown area, Aziz Kara, a 64-year-old Turk, became embroiled in a ferocious argument with his neighbours.
  • (17) That was before Scorsese stepped into the debate with a firmly-worded open letter to the LA Times calling for Blackie to be added to the list of nominees for what he described as "an uncompromising performance as a ferocious guard dog who terrorises children" in Hugo, which is up for 11 Oscars.
  • (18) The friend's walls were covered in cheap porn, and every person I speak to in the hostel has ferocious love-bites on their necks.
  • (19) A ferocious interior lineman who has drawn comparison with Houston's JJ Watt, Floyd will help compensate for the departure of seven-time Pro Bowler Richard Seymour.
  • (20) Those chaotic early years instilled in Xi a ferocious determination to succeed, those who have met him say.