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…
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