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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
  • Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive; as, an '''awful''' scene.
  • obsolete terror-stricken.
  • Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an '''awful''' scene.
  • Struck or filled with awe.
  • Very bad.
  • Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.

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Adverb:

  • colloquial Very, extremely; as, an '''awful''' big house.

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