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awful Definition

• (a) 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
• (r) used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I''m awful sorry"
• (s) 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"
• (s) 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"; "
• (s) inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence; "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads"
• (s) 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; "We

awful Synonyms

• abominable
• amazing
• atrocious
• awe-inspiring
• awed
• awesome
• awful
• awfully
• awing
• dire
• direful
• dread(a)
• dreaded
• dreadful
• fearful
• fearsome
• frightening
• frightfully
• horrendous
• horrific
• nasty
• painful
• terrible
• terribly
• unspeakable