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单词 awful
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awfuladjective

uk/ˈɔː.fəl/us/ˈɑː.fəl/

awful adjective (BAD)

A2 extremely bad or unpleasant:

He suffered awful injuries in the crash.
We had awful weather.
She has an awful boss.
What an awful thing to say!
Would life be so awful without a car?
The food was awful.
She'd been ill and she looked awful.

More examples

  • If the party is awful, we can always leave .
  • The hotel was awful! To begin with, our room was far too small.
  • The awful spectre of civil war looms over the country.
  • It's a good job they didn't go camping last weekend - the weather was awful.
  • They live downwind of a pig-farm and sometimes the smell is awful.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Not of good quality

  • a miserable, poor, etc. excuse for sth idiom
  • apology
  • atrocious
  • awfully
  • badly
  • be an apology for sth idiom
  • clunky
  • come/be a poor second, third, etc. idiom
  • downscale
  • inadequacy
  • inadequate
  • motley
  • mouldy
  • not set the world on fire idiom
  • tacky
  • unappetizing
  • unattractive
  • unimpressed
  • weak sauce
  • worst

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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Serious and unpleasant

awful adjective (VERY GREAT)

B2 [ before noun ] very great:

I don't know an awful lot (= very much) about art, but I'm learning.
Fortunately it won't make an awful lot of difference if I don't pass the test.
It was an awful risk to take.

More examples

  • There's an awful lot of smut on television these days.
  • There's an awful lot of work to be done.
  • It's an awful bore cooking a meal every night.
  • It takes an awful long time to travel across the city on public transport.
  • I'm feeling an awful lot better, thanks.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Linguistics: very & extreme

  • abject
  • badly
  • beyond
  • classic
  • classical
  • deadly
  • devastating
  • drop dead! idiom
  • eminently
  • esp
  • especially
  • heartily
  • impossibly
  • perfect
  • sheer
  • specially
  • supremely
  • thoroughly
  • whole
  • wide

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awfulness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈɔː.fəl.nəs/us/ˈɑː.fəl.nəs/

You can't appreciate the true/sheer awfulness of war until you've actually experienced it.
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