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English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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  1. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.
  2. Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive.
  3. Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.
  4. worshipful|Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
  5. Great; exceedingly good or bad; applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet, I have learnt an awful amount today.


Translations

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Awful \Aw"ful\, a.
1. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as,
an awful scene. "The hour of Nature's awful throes."
--Hemans.
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2. Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with
fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear;
profoundly impressive.
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Heaven's awful Monarch. --Milton.
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3. Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken. [Obs.]
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A weak and awful reverence for antiquity. --I.
Watts.
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4. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding. [Obs.]
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Thrust from the company of awful men. --Shak.
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5. Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively;
as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [Slang]
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Syn: See Frightful.
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WordNet awful
adj 1: 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" [syn: atrocious, abominable, dreadful,
painful, terrible, unspeakable]
2: 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"
[syn: dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful,
fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific,
terrible]
3: 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 [syn: nasty] [ant: nice]
4: inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence;
"awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed
heads" [syn: awed]
5: 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" [syn: amazing, awe-inspiring,
awesome, awing]
adv : used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful
sorry" [syn: terribly, awfully, frightfully]
Moby Dictionary
Babylonian , Corinthian , abominable , appalling , arrant , astounding ,
atrocious , august , awe-inspiring , awesome , awfully , awing , bad ,
baneful , barbaric , base , beastly , beneath contempt , big , bizarre ,
blameworthy , brutal , contemptible , crazy , damned , deadly , deluxe ,
deplorable , despicable , detestable , dire , direful , disgusting ,
divine , dread , dreaded , dreadful , eerie , egregious , elaborate ,
elegant , enormous , estimable , execrable , extravagant , extremely ,
fancy , fearful , fell , fetid , filthy , fine , flagrant , forbidding ,
formidable , foul , frightful , fulsome , ghastly , ghoulish , glorious ,
grand , grandiose , grave , greatly , grievous , grim , grisly , gross ,
grotesque , gruesome , hateful , heavenly , heinous , hideous , holy ,
honorable , horrendous , horrible , horrid , horrific , horrifying ,
howling , hugely , imposing , impressive , ineffable , inenarrable ,
inexpressible , infamous , inferior , inviolable , inviolate ,
lamentable , loathsome , lousy , luxurious , macabre , magnificent ,
majestic , monstrous , morbid , mortally , moving , much , mysterious ,
nasty , nefarious , noble , noisome , notorious , numinous , obnoxious ,
odious , offensive , ominous , outrageous , palatial , pitiable ,
pitiful , plush , portentous , posh , princely , proud , rank ,
redoubtable , regrettable , religious , repelling , reprehensible ,
repugnant , repulsive , reverend , revolting , ritzy , rotten , rousing ,
sacred , sacrosanct , sad , scandalous , schlock , schrecklich , scurvy ,
serious , shabby , shameful , shocking , shoddy , solemn , sordid ,
spiritual , splendacious , splendid , splendiferous , squalid , stately ,
sumptuous , superb , superfancy , superfine , swank , swanky , swell ,
tasteless , terrible , terribly , terrific , thumping , time-honored ,
too bad , tragic , tremendous , ugly , uncanny , unclean , unpleasant ,
unsightly , unspeakable , untouchable , unutterable , venerable , vile ,
villainous , weird , whacking , whopping , woeful , worshipful , worst ,
worthless , wretched


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