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Meaning of awful
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
awful
adv 1: used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful
sorry" [syn: {terribly}, {awfully}, {awful},
{frightfully}]
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}, {awful},
{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: {awful}, {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}, {awful}] [ant: {nice}]
4: inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence;
"awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads"
[syn: {awed}, {awful}]
5: extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a
frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money" [syn:
{frightful}, {terrible}, {awful}, {tremendous}]
6: 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}, {awful}, {awing}]
WordNet ® Princeton University. http://wordnet.princeton.edu
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