different between faulty vs atrocious

English

Etymology

fault +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??lti/

Adjective

faulty (comparative faultier, superlative faultiest)

1. Having or displaying faults; not perfect; not adequate or acceptable.

   They replaced the faulty wiring and it has worked fine ever since.

   I don't think you can infer that from the premise. It's a faulty argument.

2. (obsolete) At fault, to blame; guilty.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:

     Her faultie Handmayd, which that bale did breede, / Confest, how Philemon her wrought to chaunge her weede.

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "faulty" is often applied: goods, equipment, product, wiring, construction, memory, thinking, design, hardware, software, unit, part, component, assumption, reasoning, premise, gene, operation, technique, merchandise, circuit, code, analysis, posture, machine, method, habit, process, communication.

Antonyms

• faultless

Derived terms

• faultiness

Translations

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