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awful
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Adjective
  • 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
  • extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
    • in a frightful hurry
    • spent a frightful amount of money
  • inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence
    • awed by the silence
    • awful worshippers with bowed heads
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Adverb
  • used as intensifiers
    • terribly interesting
    • I'm awful sorry
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