different between ebon vs atrocious

English

Alternative forms

• hebene (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French eban (modern ébène), from Latin ebenus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (ébenos, “ebony tree”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??b?n/

Noun

ebon (plural ebons)

1. (now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree.

Adjective

ebon (comparative more ebon, superlative most ebon)

1. (poetic) Made of ebony.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.5:

     “A stranger knight,” sayd he, “unknowne by name, / But knowne by fame, and by an Hebene speare […].”

   • 1745, Edward Young, Night-Thoughts, I:

     Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world.

2. (poetic) Black in colour.

Anagrams

• Beno, Boen, Bone, Bône, bone

English

Etymology

From Latin atr?x (“cruel, fierce, frightful”) +? -ious.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?-tr??-sh?s
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??t?????s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??t?o???s/
• Rhymes: -????s
• Hyphenation: a?tro?cious

Adjective

atrocious (comparative more atrocious, superlative most atrocious)

1. Frightful, evil, cruel, or monstrous.

2. Offensive or heinous.
3. Very bad; abominable, disgusting.

Derived terms

• atrociously
• atrociousness
• vomitrocious

Related terms

• atrocity

Translations