'awful' definitions:
Definition of 'awful'
(from WordNet)
adverb
Used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful sorry" [syn: terribly, awfully, awful, frightfully]
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" [syn: atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable]
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" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]
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 [syn: nasty, awful] [ant: nice]
adjective
Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence; "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads" [syn: awed, awful]
adjective
Extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money" [syn: frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous]
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" [syn: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing]
Synonyms of 'awful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abominable,
- appalling,
- arrant,
- astounding,
- atrocious,
- august,
- awe-inspiring,
- awesome,
- awfully,
- awing,
- Babylonian,
- bad,
- baneful,
- barbaric,
- base,
- beastly,
- beneath contempt,
- big,
- bizarre,
- blameworthy,
- brutal,
- contemptible,
- Corinthian,
- crazy,
- damned,
- deadly,
- deluxe,
- deplorable,
- despicable,
- detestable,
- dire,
- direful,
- disgusting,
- divine,
- dread,
- dreaded,
- dreadful,
- eerie,
- egregious,
- elaborate,
- elegant,
- enormous,
- estimable,
- execrable,
- extravagant,
- extremely,
- fancy,
- fearful,
- fell,
- fetid,
- filthy,
- fine,
- flagrant,
- forbidding,
- formidable,
- foul,
- frightful,
- fulsome,
- ghastly,
- ghoulish,
- glorious,
- grand,
- grandiose,
- grave,
- greatly,
- grievous,
- grim,
- grisly,
- gross,
- grotesque,
- gruesome,
- hateful,
- heavenly,
- heinous,
- hideous,
- holy,
- honorable,
- horrendous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- horrific,
- horrifying,
- howling,
- hugely,
- imposing,
- impressive,
- ineffable,
- inenarrable,
- inexpressible,
- infamous,
- inferior,
- inviolable,
- inviolate,
- lamentable,
- loathsome,
- lousy,
- luxurious,
- macabre,
- magnificent,
- majestic,
- monstrous,
- morbid,
- mortally,
- moving,
- much,
- mysterious,
- nasty,
- nefarious,
- noble,
- noisome,
- notorious,
- numinous,
- obnoxious,
- odious,
- offensive,
- ominous,
- outrageous,
- palatial,
- pitiable,
- pitiful,
- plush,
- portentous,
- posh,
- princely,
- proud,
- rank,
- redoubtable,
- regrettable,
- religious,
- repelling,
- reprehensible,
- repugnant,
- repulsive,
- reverend,
- revolting,
- ritzy,
- rotten,
- rousing,
- sacred,
- sacrosanct,
- sad,
- scandalous,
- schlock,
- schrecklich,
- scurvy,
- serious,
- shabby,
- shameful,
- shocking,
- shoddy,
- solemn,
- sordid,
- spiritual,
- splendacious,
- splendid,
- splendiferous,
- squalid,
- stately,
- sumptuous,
- superb,
- superfancy,
- superfine,
- swank,
- swanky,
- swell,
- tasteless,
- terrible,
- terribly,
- terrific,
- thumping,
- time-honored,
- too bad,
- tragic,
- tremendous,
- ugly,
- uncanny,
- unclean,
- unpleasant,
- unsightly,
- unspeakable,
- untouchable,
- unutterable,
- venerable,
- vile,
- villainous,
- weird,
- whacking,
- whopping,
- woeful,
- worshipful,
- worst,
- worthless,
- wretched