atrocement

atrociously

adverb ah-tros-MAHN Rare

Also means

dreadfully

Usage Note

Atrocement intensifies descriptions of pain, ugliness, or quality in a strongly negative way. It can mean 'horribly' (elle souffre atrocement — she is suffering terribly) or colloquially 'extremely badly' (il chante atrocement). It derives from atroce (atrocious), which itself comes from Latin atrox.

Examples

"Il souffrait atrocement de la chaleur."

Natural Translation

He was suffering terribly from the heat.

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