Awful: Definition and part of speech

Awful

  1. a. Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; — applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster.
  2. a. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.
  3. a. Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive.
  4. a. Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.
  5. a. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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