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awful

English

  1. 🔊 causing fear or dread or terror
    “the awful war”
  2. 🔊 offensive or even (of persons) malicious
    “in a nasty mood”
  3. 🔊 inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence
    “awed by the silence”
  4. 🔊 exceptionally bad or displeasing
    “atrocious taste”
  5. 🔊 extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
    “in a frightful hurry”
  6. 🔊 inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
    “New York is an amazing city”
  7. 🔊 used as intensifiers
    “terribly interesting”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 perro awful
  2. 🔊 penoso awful, pitiful
  3. 🔊 infame awful, dreadful
  4. 🔊 patético awful, terrible (very bad)

Similar words

dire direful dread(a) dreaded dreadful fearful fearsome frightening horrendous horrific terrible atrocious abominable dreadful painful terrible unspeakable amazing awe-inspiring awesome awing nasty frightful terrible