awful
Meaning of awful
adjective
- very bad or unpleasant.
the place smelled awful
I look awful in a swimsuit
an awful speech
- used to emphasize the extent of something, especially something unpleasant or negative.
I've made an awful fool of myself
- inspiring reverential wonder or fear.
- 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:
Meaning awed:
Meaning frightful:
frightful, terrible, tremendous
Meaning amazing:
Meaning terribly:
terribly, awfully, frightfully
Meaning arousing revulsion or strong indignation:
Meaning causing great horror or fear:
Meaning very unpleasant or disagreeable:
Meaning causing or likely to cause horror; shocking:
Meaning extremely unpleasant:
Meaning offensive to the senses, especially through having a disgusting smell or taste or being dirty:
Meaning causing shock or dismay; horrific:
Meaning (of a sight or smell) disgusting; repulsive:
Meaning arousing distaste or opposition; unpleasant or offensive:
Meaning causing hatred or disgust; repulsive:
Meaning causing intense disgust; disgusting:
Meaning arousing intense distaste or disgust:
Meaning causing disgust or distaste:
Meaning extremely distasteful; unacceptable:
Meaning extremely unpleasant; repulsive:
Meaning causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust:
Meaning causing or liable to cause a feeling of nausea or disgust; disgusting:
Meaning affected with nausea; feeling inclined to vomit:
Meaning causing repulsion or horror; grisly:
Meaning disgracefully bad or unpleasant:
Meaning messy or disgusting:
Meaning extremely bad or unpleasant:
Meaning (especially of wrongdoing) very obvious and unacceptable:
Meaning unpleasantly sticky:
Meaning unpleasant and of poor quality:
Meaning very unpleasant:
Meaning very great, bad, or overwhelming:
Meaning very poor or bad:
Meaning having an extremely offensive smell:
Meaning old-fashioned term for disgusting:
Meaning of a low or inferior standard or quality:
Meaning very bad or incompetent:
Meaning lacking the quality or quantity required; insufficient for a purpose:
Meaning of low standard or quality:
Meaning not satisfactory; not good enough:
Meaning below the usual or required standard:
Meaning so ludicrous as to be amusing:
Meaning (of an event, action, or attitude) unfortunate; regrettable:
Meaning dirty, unpleasant, or of poor quality:
Meaning arousing pity, especially through vulnerability or sadness:
Meaning suffering from decay:
Meaning not fulfilling or not expected to achieve the intended purpose or desired outcome:
Meaning very bad; deplorable:
Meaning extremely bad; appalling:
Meaning a flour pudding boiled or steamed in a cloth bag:
Meaning of a very poor quality:
Meaning very bad; worthless or useless:
Meaning of poor quality; worthless:
Meaning outstandingly bad; shocking:
Meaning extremely poor in quality:
Meaning faeces:
Meaning worthless or contemptible (used as a general term of abuse):
Meaning evoking admiration through size, quality, or skill; grand, imposing, or awesome:
awful antonyms
Meaning very beautiful or attractive:
Meaning inspiring delight, pleasure, or admiration; extremely good; marvellous:
Meaning to be desired or approved of:
Meaning extremely good; outstanding:
Translation of awful
- Italian: temibile, terribile, orribile
- French: terrible, effrayant
- Spanish: temible, terrible, horrible, espantoso, espantosa, fatal, horroroso, horrorosa
- German: furchtbar, beschissen
Anagrams of awful
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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