2. brutal, inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, savage; brutish, murderous, slaughterous, bloodthirsty, sadistic; ferocious, ruthless, vicious, fell, truculent; wolfish, lupine, fierce, feral, ferine, bestial, Obs. belluine; pitiless, merciless, heartless, cruel, cold-blooded, hardhearted, stony-hearted, marble-hearted.
3. tasteless, insipid, mawkish; vulgar, tawdry, cheap, gimcrack, brummagen, barbaric; meretricious, pretentious, ostentatious, gaudy; unpolished, inelegant.
atrocity, n. 1. wickedness, evilness, fiendishness,
heinousness, nefariousness, flagitiousness, blackness, atrociousness; cruelty, barbarity, savagery, brutality, bloodlust, murderousness, malignity; ferocity, fierceness, truculence, inhumanity, monstrousness, ruthlessness; horribleness, horridness, hideousness, dreadfulness, terribleness, outrageousness.
2. crime, offense, violation, injury, hurt, harm, evil, wrong; enormity, monstrosity, horror, outrage; abomination, disgrace, shame, scandal.
atrophy, n. 1. degeneration, decline, wasting away, withering, weakening, enervation, emaciation; Path. marasmus, consumption, decay.
-v. 2. waste away, wither, shrivel up, dry up; de
generate, decline, decay; exhaust, sap, weaken, enfeeble, enervate.
attach, v. 1. fasten, affix, fix; join, connect, unite, wed, tie, bind, make fast to, hitch, pin, tack, rivet; stick, stick on, bond, cement, glue, solder, weld; append, add, annex, subjoin.
2. affiliate, associate, combine, join forces with; sign on, sign up, adhere to, belong to, conjoin.
3. assign, attribute, ascribe, accredit, adhibit; apply, pertain, tie in with, be incident, bear upon.
4. attract, charm, endear, enamor, fascinate, captivate; win, win over, conquer.
5. Law. entail, put a lien on, garnish, garnishee; seize, confiscate, appropriate, Law. distrain.
attachment, n. 1. attaching, fastening, afixture, union, cohesion, joining, annexation; insertion, conjuncture, subjunction.
2. devotion, esteem, estimation, respect, admiration, loyalty, regard, affection, liking, fondness, endearment, tenderness, friendship, love, passion; predilection, leaning, affinity, inclination, penchant, partiality; adhesion, fidelity, devotedness.
3. junction, joint, connection, bond, binding, fastening, tie, link, nexus; binder, holder, clamp, connector, copula.
4. addition, accessory, adjunct, appurtenance, appendage, ornament, extra; extension, auxiliary, complement; rider, codicil, supplement.
5. Law. entailment, lien, garnish, garnishment; seizure, confiscation, appropriation, Law. distrainment, distrainor.
attack, v. 1. assault, raid, storm, charge, rush, blitz, blitzkrieg; set upon, pounce upon, descend upon, fall on, open fire.upon, begin hostilities; light into, Inf. lace into, Inf. rip into, Inf. tear into, SI. zap, SI. let [s.o.] have it, SI. lay into, Archaic, insult; pelt, bombard, barrage, pepper, strafe, fusillade, broadside, Mil. enfilade, Inf. gang up on; beset, besiege, siege, beleaguer.