awful

Meaning of awful

adjective
  1. very bad or unpleasant.
    the place smelled awful
    I look awful in a swimsuit
    an awful speech
  2. used to emphasize the extent of something, especially something unpleasant or negative.
    I've made an awful fool of myself
  3. inspiring reverential wonder or fear.
adverb
  1. awfully; very.
    we're an awful long way from the motorway

Old English(see awe, -ful).

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Hyphenation of awful

aw-ful

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 5 chars.
  • awful is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

awful synonyms

Meaning atrocious:

atrocious, abominable, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable

Meaning dire:

dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible

Meaning nasty:

nasty

Meaning awed:

awed

Meaning frightful:

frightful, terrible, tremendous

Meaning amazing:

amazing, awesome, awing

Meaning terribly:

terribly, awfully, frightfully

Meaning arousing revulsion or strong indignation:

disgusting

Meaning causing great horror or fear:

ghastly

Meaning very unpleasant or disagreeable:

horrid

Meaning causing or likely to cause horror; shocking:

horrible

Meaning extremely unpleasant:

vile, hideous, obnoxious

Meaning offensive to the senses, especially through having a disgusting smell or taste or being dirty:

foul

Meaning causing shock or dismay; horrific:

appalling

Meaning (of a sight or smell) disgusting; repulsive:

offensive

Meaning arousing distaste or opposition; unpleasant or offensive:

objectionable

Meaning causing hatred or disgust; repulsive:

loathsome, loathly

Meaning causing intense disgust; disgusting:

revolting

Meaning arousing intense distaste or disgust:

repulsive

Meaning causing disgust or distaste:

repellent

Meaning extremely distasteful; unacceptable:

repugnant

Meaning extremely unpleasant; repulsive:

odious

Meaning causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust:

sickening

Meaning causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust; disgusting:

nauseating

Meaning affected with nausea; feeling inclined to vomit:

nauseous

Meaning causing repulsion or horror; grisly:

gruesome

Meaning disgracefully bad or unpleasant:

diabolical

Meaning messy or disgusting:

yucky

Meaning extremely bad or unpleasant:

godawful, execrable

Meaning (especially of wrongdoing) very obvious and unacceptable:

gross

Meaning unpleasantly sticky:

icky

Meaning unpleasant and of poor quality:

grotty

Meaning very unpleasant:

beastly

Meaning very great, bad, or overwhelming:

hellacious

Meaning very poor or bad:

lousy

Meaning having an extremely offensive smell:

noisome

Meaning old-fashioned term for disgusting:

disgustful

Meaning of a low or inferior standard or quality:

poor

Meaning very bad or incompetent:

hopeless

Meaning lacking the quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose:

inadequate

Meaning of low standard or quality:

inferior

Meaning not satisfactory; not good enough:

unsatisfactory

Meaning below the usual or required standard:

substandard

Meaning so ludicrous as to be amusing:

laughable

Meaning (of an event, action, or attitude) unfortunate; regrettable:

lamentable

Meaning dirty, unpleasant, or of poor quality:

crummy

Meaning arousing pity, especially through vulnerability or sadness:

pathetic

Meaning suffering from decay:

rotten

Meaning not fulfilling or not expected to achieve the intended purpose or desired outcome:

useless

Meaning very bad; deplorable:

woeful

Meaning extremely bad; appalling:

abysmal

Meaning a flour pudding boiled or steamed in a cloth bag:

duff

Meaning of a very poor quality:

chronic

Meaning very bad; worthless or useless:

rubbish

Meaning of poor quality; worthless:

poxy

Meaning outstandingly bad; shocking:

egregious

Meaning extremely poor in quality:

crap

Meaning faeces:

shit

Meaning worthless or contemptible (used as a general term of abuse):

chickenshit

Meaning evoking admiration through size, quality, or skill; grand, imposing, or awesome:

impressive

awful antonyms

Meaning very beautiful or attractive:

lovely

Meaning inspiring delight, pleasure, or admiration; extremely good; marvellous:

wonderful

Meaning to be desired or approved of:

good

Meaning extremely good; outstanding:

excellent

Translation of awful

Anagrams of awful

fulwa

Words that rhyme with awful

crawful, flawful, godawful, goshawful, lawful, overawful, prelawful, unawful, unlawful, pewful, barrowful, oversorrowful, showful, slowful, sorrowful, unsorrowful, wheelbarrowful, windowful

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