OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 11084

awful

/ˈɔfəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
horrible • infumable • terrible
Very bad.
The smell of my socks is awful.
We saw such an awful film last night that we left the theater before the end.
atroz • espantoso • horrible • terrible
Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
At our old pastimes in the hall ⁠We gambol’d, making vain pretence ⁠Of gladness, with an awful sense Of one mute Shadow watching all.
There was an air of gravity and importance about the garb of the person, and something indescribably odd, I might say awful, in the perfect, stonelike stillness of the figure, that…