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[adv] (informal) used as intensifiers, as in"terribly interesting"; "I'm awful sorry"
[adjective] 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"
[adjective] 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"
[adjective] 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"
[adjective] 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
[adjective] inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence; "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads"
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\Aw"ful\, a. 1. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene. ``The hour of Nature's awful throes.'' --Hemans. 2. Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive. Heaven's awful Monarch. --Milton. 3. Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken. [Obs.] A weak and awful reverence for antiquity. --I. Watts. 4. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding. [Obs.] Thrust from the company of awful men. --Shak. 5. Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [Slang] Syn: See {Frightful}.

Synonyms for awful

abominable, alarming, amazing, atrocious, awed, awe-inspiring, awesome, awfully, awing, bad, dire, direful, dirty, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, filthy, frightening, frightfully, grotty, hateful, horrendous, horrific, impressive, lousy, mean, nasty, painful, reverent, terrible, terribly, unpleasant, unspeakable

Antonyms: nice

Related terms: appalling, august, awfully, deplorable, disgusting, dreadful, elegant, extravagant, frightful, fulsome, grisly, honorable, horrible, horrific, magnificent, portentous, rank, ritzy, tragic, uncanny, unpleasant, unspeakable

The fun area, different aproach to word »awful«

Let's analyse "awful" as pure text. This string has Five letters in Two syllables and Two vowels. 40% of vowels is 1.4% more then average English word. Written in backwards: LUFWA. Average typing speed for these characters is 1385 milliseconds. [info]

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Numerology

Hearts desire number calculated from vowels: awful: 1 + 3 = 4, reduced: 4 . and the final result is Four.
Destiny number calculated from all letters: awful: 1 + 5 + 6 + 3 + 3 = 18, reduced: 9, and the final result is Nine.

Tarot cards

Letter Num. Tarot c. Intensity Meaning
A (1) 1 Magician Creative, Inventive, Intuitive
F (1) 6 Lovers Practical, Faithful, Organizer
L (1) 12 Hanged Man Leader, Teacher, Healer, Decisive
U (1) 21 World Gifted, Generous, Bountiful
W (1) 23 King of Wands Sensual, Warm, Strong, Loyal

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