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awful 音标拼音: ['ɑfəl] ['ɔfəl] a. 令人畏惧的,可怕的;威严的,庄重的;极度的,非常的 令人畏惧的,可怕的;威严的,庄重的;极度的,非常的 awful adv 1: used as intensifiers; " terribly interesting"; " I' m awful sorry" [ synonym: { terribly}, { awfully}, { awful}, { frightfully}] adj 1: exceptionally bad or displeasing; " atrocious taste"; " abominable workmanship"; " an awful voice"; " dreadful manners"; " a painful performance"; " terrible handwriting"; " an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" [ synonym: { atrocious}, { abominable}, { awful}, { dreadful}, { painful}, { terrible}, { unspeakable}] 2: causing fear or dread or terror; " the awful war"; " an awful risk"; " dire news"; " a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; " the dread presence of the headmaster"; " polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; " a dreadful storm"; " a fearful howling"; " horrendous explosions shook the city"; " a terrible curse" [ synonym: { awful}, { dire}, { direful}, { dread( a)}, { dreaded}, { dreadful}, { fearful}, { fearsome}, { frightening}, { horrendous}, { horrific}, { terrible}] 3: offensive or even ( of persons) malicious; " in a nasty mood"; " a nasty accident"; " a nasty shock"; " a nasty smell"; " a nasty trick to pull"; " Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound [ synonym: { nasty}, { awful}] [ ant: { nice}] 4: inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence; " awed by the silence"; " awful worshippers with bowed heads" [ synonym: { awed}, { awful}] 5: extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; " in a frightful hurry"; " spent a frightful amount of money" [ synonym: { frightful}, { terrible}, { awful}, { tremendous}] 6: 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" [ synonym: { amazing}, { awe- inspiring}, { awesome}, { awful}, { awing}] Awful \ Aw" ful\, a. 1. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene. " The hour of Nature' s awful throes." -- Hemans. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive. [ 1913 Webster] Heaven' s awful Monarch. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Struck or filled with awe; terror- stricken. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] A weak and awful reverence for antiquity. -- I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Worshipful; reverential; law- abiding. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Thrust from the company of awful men. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [ Slang] [ 1913 Webster] Syn: See { Frightful}. [ 1913 Webster] 193 Moby Thesaurus words for " awful": Babylonian, Corinthian, abominable, appalling, arrant, astounding, atrocious, august, awe- inspiring, awesome, awfully, awing, bad, baneful, barbaric, base, beastly, beneath contempt, big, bizarre, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, crazy, damned, deadly, deluxe, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, direful, disgusting, divine, dread, dreaded, dreadful, eerie, egregious, elaborate, elegant, enormous, estimable, execrable, extravagant, extremely, fancy, fearful, fell, fetid, filthy, fine, flagrant, forbidding, formidable, foul, frightful, fulsome, ghastly, ghoulish, glorious, grand, grandiose, grave, greatly, grievous, grim, grisly, gross, grotesque, gruesome, hateful, heavenly, heinous, hideous, holy, honorable, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, howling, hugely, imposing, impressive, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, infamous, inferior, inviolable, inviolate, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, luxurious, macabre, magnificent, majestic, monstrous, morbid, mortally, moving, much, mysterious, nasty, nefarious, noble, noisome, notorious, numinous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, ominous, outrageous, palatial, pitiable, pitiful, plush, portentous, posh, princely, proud, rank, redoubtable, regrettable, religious, repelling, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, reverend, revolting, ritzy, rotten, rousing, sacred, sacrosanct, sad, scandalous, schlock, schrecklich, scurvy, serious, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, solemn, sordid, spiritual, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, squalid, stately, sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swell, tasteless, terrible, terribly, terrific, thumping, time- honored, too bad, tragic, tremendous, ugly, uncanny, unclean, unpleasant, unsightly, unspeakable, untouchable, unutterable, venerable, vile, villainous, weird, whacking, whopping, woeful, worshipful, worst, worthless, wretched
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