awful
- Adjective. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
- Adjective. (context, now) Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive.
- Adjective. Struck or filled with awe.
- Adjective. (obsolete) Terror-stricken.
- Adjective. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
- Adjective. Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
- Adjective. Very bad.
- Adverb. (colloquial) Very, extremely; as, an '''awful''' big house.
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