awful



awful - adjective

  • exceptionally bad or displeasing
  • causing fear or dread or terror
  • offensive or even (of persons) malicious
  • inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence
  • extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
  • inspiring awe or admiration or wonder

awful - adverb

  • used as intensifiers

awful - thesaurus

abominable   amazing   atrocious   awed   awesome   awfully   awing   dire   direful   dread   dreaded   dreadful   fearful   fearsome   frightening   frightful   frightfully   horrendous   horrific   nasty   painful   terrible   terribly   tremendous   unspeakable  


View spelling list aw - longer words and learn about the word awful in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 14. Spelling choices for /or/ sound: or, ore, au, aw + war.

Scrabble score for awful

a is 1 w is 4 f is 4 u is 1 l is 1
Scrabble score = 11

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