AWFUL
\ˈɔːfə͡l], \ˈɔːfəl], \ˈɔː_f_əl]\
Definitions of AWFUL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
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inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence; "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads"
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used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful sorry"
By Princeton University
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inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence; "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.
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Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive.
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Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.
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Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
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Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; - applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster.
By Oddity Software
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Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.
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Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive.
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Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.
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Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
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Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; - applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster.
By Noah Webster.
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Inspiring or impressing with great fear or reverence; as, the awful majesty of God; of a dreadful or appalling nature; solemn.
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Awfulness.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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