awful

awful has 12 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• a.. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.
• a.. Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive.
• a.. Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.
• a.. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
• a.. Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster.
• a.. 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"
• a.. 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"
• a.. 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"
• a.. 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
• a.. extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money"
• a.. inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence; "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads"
• adv.. used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful sorry"