awful
3 ENTRIES FOUND:
Britannica Dictionary definition of AWFUL
[more awful; most awful]
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extremely bad or unpleasant
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The music was awful.
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They heard the most awful sounds.
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Awful things began to happen.
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The weather was awful.
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He has some awful disease.
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That joke is just/pretty/really/truly awful.
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He's an awful person.
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That's an awful thing to say.
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She has awful manners.
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Who painted the house that awful color?
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I don't know what's wrong with me but I feel awful. [=very sick]
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I feel awful [=very sorry] about what happened.
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formal + old-fashioned
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causing feelings of fear and wonder
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awesome
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The mountains have an awful majesty.
an awful lot
informal
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a large amount
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They lost an awful lot of money.
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She does an awful lot of talking.
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very much
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I like him an awful lot. [=I like him a lot]
— awfulness
noun [noncount]-
the sheer awfulness of it all
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the awfulness of the disease
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awful
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adverb
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awful
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adverb
Britannica Dictionary definition of AWFUL
chiefly US, informal
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very or extremely
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awfully
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He was awful tired.
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We haven't heard from him in an awful long time.
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You've come an awful long way.
