Awfulness
101sophisticated — sophisticated, worldly wise, worldly, blasé, disillusioned are synonymous when they apply to persons, to their attitudes and actions, or to products of human skill and effort and mean experienced or revealing experience in the ways of the world.… …
102horror — n 1. fear, fearfulness, dread, fright, Inf. funk; terror, panic, alarm, perturbation, trepidation, dismay; angst, fear and trembling, anguish, anxiety; uneasiness, apprehensiveness, Inf. butterflies, nervousness, queasiness. 2. abhorrence,… …
103inferiority — n 1. subordination, secondary or junior status or standing, second fiddle; lowliness, subservience, subserviency; pettiness, paltriness, unimportance, insignificance. 2. lowness, meanness, baseness, rankness, shoddiness, sleaziness, cheapness,… …
104awful — I UK [ˈɔːf(ə)l] / US [ˈɔf(ə)l] adjective ** 1) used for emphasizing how unpleasant someone or something is This wine tastes awful. These awful people behind us talked all through the film. The smell was absolutely awful. He had the awful feeling… …
105awful — /ˈɔfəl / (say awfuhl) adjective 1. extremely bad; unpleasant; ugly. 2. Colloquial very great: an awful lot. 3. inspiring fear; dreadful; terrible. 4. full of awe; reverential. 5. inspiring reverential awe; solemnly impressive. –adverb 6.… …
106awful — ► ADJECTIVE 1) very bad or unpleasant. 2) used for emphasis: an awful lot. 3) archaic inspiring awe. DERIVATIVES awfulness noun …
107awful — [ô′fəl] adj. [ME awful, agheful: see AWE & FUL] 1. inspiring awe; highly impressive 2. causing fear; terrifying 3. dreadful; appalling 4. full of awe; reverential 5. very bad, ugly, unpleasant, etc …
108awful — adj. 1 colloq. a unpleasant or horrible (awful weather). b poor in quality; very bad (has awful writing). c (attrib.) excessive; large ({{}}an awful lot of money). 2 poet. inspiring awe. Derivatives: awfulness n. Etymology: AWE + FUL …
109dreaded — adjective causing fear or dread or terror the awful war an awful risk dire news a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked the dread presence of the headmaster polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was a dreadful storm …
110frightening — I noun the act of inspiring with fear • Syn: ↑terrorization, ↑terrorisation • Derivationally related forms: ↑frighten, ↑terrorise (for: ↑terrorisation), ↑ …
