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'awful' - used as an adjective
Synonyms for 'awful'
1. exceptionally bad or displeasing
an awful voice
2. causing fear or dread or terror
the awful war
an awful risk
3. offensive or even (of persons) malicious
4. inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence
awful worshippers with bowed heads
5. extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact
6. inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath

'awful' - used as a adverb
7. used as intensifiers
I'm awful sorry
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    We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. - Click here to find out.
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    Some of the other names that were thought of for the dwarfs in the Disney movie "Snow White" were Awful, Dirty, Shifty, Hotsy, and Jumpy.