Definition: 1. Exceptionally bad or displeasing. 2. Causing fear or dread or terror. 3. Offensive or even (of persons) malicious. 4. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence. 5. Inspiring awe or admiration or wonder. 6. Used as intensifiers.
Use 'awful' in a sentence:
1. I feel awful about forgetting her birthday.
2. Molly is like how Liz Hurley dresses her son, which is awful.
3. Liverpool Football Club means an awful lot to a lot of people.
4. That's an awful lot of water for a little baby'.
5. The awful thing is, it was my fault.
6. I land this account, and I'm gonna buy you something awful pretty.
7. I expected to try my best to pass the test, but something awful happened.
8. Gilbert says people are awful at predicting what will make them happy.
9. The thought of war is too awful to contemplate.
10. It would be awful to tour Beijing in an unusually cold winter like this.
11. Kid Cudi makes the listener work awful hard to consume his music.
12. An awful thought has just struck me.
13. I've got an awful lot of work to do.
14. "It's an awful tragedy," he told France Info radio.
15. Well, it sounds really awful.
16. But on the other, college students' Chinese writing has deteriorated to an awful level.
17. The design of the ad was too awful for an international football star.
18. "We don't know an awful lot about him," Suey said.
19. "People's greed for money is an awful thing," he said.
20. It's going to cost an awful lot of money.
21. The next day the awful truth dawned on me as I looked down at my leg.
22. So I'm kissing him and he's like my brother-it was really awful.
23. "It is the most awful tragedy I have ever seen," he said.
24. Clint is awful smart.
25. She has been wearing my engagement ring and it meant an awful lot.
26. There's not really an awful lot more I can do or say.
27. I can't believe they invited me back after awful things I said.
28. "She has no idea she's awful," Snipes said.
29. It sounds really awful.
30. "My start was as awful as usual," she said.
31. My generation learned an awful lot about music by browsing records in stores.
32. We women can do an awful lot if we put our minds to it.
33. He was disgusted to see such awful living conditions.
34. I had an awful feeling.
35. I had an awful time in the hospital.
36. I hardly slept at all and felt pretty awful.
37. Her injuries were massive. It was awful.
38. Everybody knew that something awful was afoot.
39. "I experienced two pretty awful years there," she recalled.
40. He doesn't show any reliability, delivering awful jumpers from time to time.
41. The everyday commuting travel turns into an awful experience for passengers during rush hours.
42. I have just spent an awful lot of money on a very young player'.
43. The conditions in there are awful, you know.
44. "It is awful sitting on the bench," Van Nistelrooy said.
45. And we can all imagine what an awful loss that would be.
46. I had to go to the toilet, but I didn't want to use that awful outhouse. So I went off in the woods.
47. Several hundred million people traveling during the same week can make for an awful experience.
