Definition of Awful

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Definition of Awful

Awful

Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.

Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive.

Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.

Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.

Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster.

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Awful Quotations

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Theodor Geisel

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
Leon Trotsky

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
Stephen Fry

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.
Payne Stewart

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
Herman Melville

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens

There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.
Chevy Chase

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.
Donald Rumsfeld

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck

Awful Translations

awful in Dutch is afgrijselijk
awful in French is hideux
awful in German is furchtbar, schrecklich
awful in Italian is tremendo, mostruoso
awful in Spanish is abominable, horrible

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