| atrocious | (adjective) provoking horror | Synonyms: frightful, horrible, horrifying, ugly |
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| (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable |
| (adjective) shockingly brutal or cruel | Synonyms: flagitious, grievous, monstrous |
| atrociously | (adverb) in a terrible manner | Synonyms: abominably, abysmally, awfully, rottenly, terribly |
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| (adverb) to an extravagant or immoderate degree | Synonyms: outrageously |
| atrociousness | (noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness |
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| braggadocio | (noun) vain and empty boasting | Synonyms: bluster, rhodomontade, rodomontade |
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| ferocious | (adjective) marked by extreme and violent energy | Synonyms: fierce, furious, savage |
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| ferociously | (adverb) in a physically fierce manner | Synonyms: fiercely |
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| ferociousness | (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: brutality, savagery, viciousness |
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| precocious | (adjective) characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude) | - |
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| (adjective) appearing or developing early | - |
| precociously | (adverb) in a precocious manner | - |
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| precociousness | (noun) intelligence achieved far ahead of normal developmental schedules | Synonyms: precocity |
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| sociobiologic | (adjective) of or relating to sociobiology | Synonyms: sociobiological |
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| sociobiological | (adjective) of or relating to sociobiology | Synonyms: sociobiologic |
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| sociobiologically | (adverb) with respect to sociobiology | - |
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| sociobiologist | (noun) a biologist who studies the biological determinants of social behavior | - |
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| sociobiology | (noun) the branch of biology that conducts comparative studies of the social organization of animals (including human beings) with regard to its evolutionary history | - |
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| sociocultural | (adjective) relating to both social and cultural matters | - |
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| socioeconomic | (adjective) involving social as well as economic factors | - |
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| socioeconomically | (adverb) with respect to socioeconomic factors | - |
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| sociolinguist | (noun) a linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication | - |
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| sociolinguistic | (adjective) of or relating to sociolinguistics | - |
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| sociolinguistically | (adverb) with respect to sociolinguistics | - |
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| sociolinguistics | (noun) the study of language in relation to its sociocultural context | - |
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| sociological | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by sociology | - |
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| sociologically | (adverb) with regard to sociology | - |
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| sociologist | (noun) a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society | - |
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| sociology | (noun) the study and classification of human societies | - |
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| sociometry | (noun) the quantitative study of social relationships | - |
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| sociopath | (noun) someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath') | Synonyms: psychopath |
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| sociopathic | (adjective) of or relating to a sociopathic personality disorder | - |
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