awful

Speech parts

1. awful - Adjective

2. awful - Adverb

3. awful - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.

Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive.

Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.

Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.

Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster.

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Examples

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. Aeschylus

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. Gioachino Rossini

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. Dr. Seuss

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral. Charles Lamb

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful. Ingmar Bergman

A spark may raise An awful blaze. French Proverb

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