| Main Entry: | enormity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | horribleness |
Synonyms: |
abomination, atrociousness, atrocity, crime, depravity, disgrace, evil, evilness, flagrancy, grossness, heinousness, horror, monstrosity, monstrousness, nefariousness, outrage, outrageousness, rankness, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainy, wickedness |
| Notes: | enormity is the quality of extreme wickedness while enormousness is unusual largeness in size or extent |
Antonyms: |
goodness |
| Main Entry: | enormity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme largeness |
Synonyms: |
bigness, bulk, enormousness, greatness, hugeness, immensity, magnitude, massiveness, size, tremendousness, vastness |
Antonyms: |
smallness, tininess, triviality |
| Main Entry: | atrocity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outrageous behavior |
Synonyms: |
atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, enormity, fiendishness, heinousness, horror, monstrousness, nefariousness, shockingness, villianousness, wickedness |
Antonyms: |
good behavior, pleasantry |
| Main Entry: | atrocity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cruelness, offensiveness; widely condemned action |
Synonyms: |
abomination, barbarity, brutality, crime, enormity, evil, horror, infamy, inhumanity, iniquity, monstrosity, offense, outrage, ruthlessness, savagery, viciousness, wrong |
Antonyms: |
kindness, pleasantness |
| Main Entry: | crime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offense against the law |
Synonyms: |
abomination, antisocial behavior, atrocity, breach, break, caper, case, corruption, criminality, delict, delictum, delinquency, depravity, dereliction, enormity, evil, evil behavior, fast one, fault, felony, hit, illegality, immorality, infraction, infringement, iniquity, job, lawlessness, malefaction, malfeasance, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, mortal sin, outrage, racket, scandal, sneak, tort, transgression, trespass, unlawful act, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Notes: | crime is from Latin crimen 'judgment, accusation, offense' and a crime is an act in violation of a law; a misdemeanor is a less serious crime while a felony is a major crime |
Antonyms: |
good deed, kindness |
| Main Entry: | greatness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | large size |
Synonyms: |
abundance, amplitude, bigness, bulk, enormity, force, high degree, hugeness, immensity, infinity, intensity, length, magnitude, mass, might, potency, power, prodigiousness, sizableness, strength, vastness |
Antonyms: |
littleness, smallness, tininess |
| Main Entry: | infamy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shameful, bad reputation |
Synonyms: |
abomination, atrocity, disapprobation, discredit, disesteem, disgrace, dishonor, disrepute, enormity, evil, ignominy, immorality, impropriety, notoriety, notoriousness, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, outrageousness, scandal, shame, stigma, villainy, wickedness |
Antonyms: |
dignity, goodness, innocence, morality, righteousness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | magnitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | size |
Synonyms: |
admeasurement, amount, amplitude, bigness, breadth, bulk, capacity, compass, dimension, dimensions, enormity, enormousness, expanse, extent, greatness, hugeness, immensity, intensity, largeness, mass, measure, measurement, proportion, proportions, quantity, range, reach, sizableness, space, strength, tremendousness, vastness, volume |
Antonyms: |
littleness, smallness, tininess |
| Main Entry: | monstrosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freak |
Synonyms: |
abnormality, atrocity, deformity, dreadfulness, enormity, eyesore, freakishness, frightfulness, grotesqueness, heinousness, hideousness, horror, monster, mutant, mutation |
| Main Entry: | outrage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | atrocity, evil |
Synonyms: |
abuse, affront, barbarism, damage, desecration, enormity, evildoing, harm, hurt, indignity, inhumanity, injury, insult, mischief, misdoing, offense, profanation, rape, rapine, ravishing, ruin, shock, violation, violence, wrongdoing |
Antonyms: |
delight, happiness |