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English Dictionary: awful |
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2 results for awful |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- awful
- adv
- used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful
sorry"
Synonym(s): terribly, awfully, awful, frightfully
- adj
- exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste";
"abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
Synonym(s): atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable
- causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
Synonym(s): awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
- offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound
Synonym(s): nasty, awful Antonym(s): nice
- inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence; "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads"
Synonym(s): awed, awful
- extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money"
Synonym(s): frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous
- inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"
Synonym(s): amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Awful \Aw"ful\, a.
1. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as,
an awful scene. [bd]The hour of Nature's awful throes.[b8]
--Hemans.
2. Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with
fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear;
profoundly impressive.
Heaven's awful Monarch. --Milton.
3. Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken. [Obs.]
A weak and awful reverence for antiquity. --I.
Watts.
4. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding. [Obs.]
Thrust from the company of awful men. --Shak.
5. Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively;
as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [Slang]
Syn: See {Frightful}.
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