- Types Of Speech
- You can use awful as a article, adverb or as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Awful
- A 2 syllables article and 5 letters with the letters a, f, l, u, and w, 3 consonants, 2 vowels and 2 syllables with the middle letter f. Awful starts with a vowel and ends in a consonant with the starting letters a, aw, awf, awfu, and the ending characters are l, ul, ful, wful, ..
- Definition
- 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"; "
- Scrabble
- Is awful a scrabble word? A 11 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Awful in Pig Latin is said as "awfulay or awfulway".
- Unigram
- a | w | f | u | l
- Bigram
- aw | wf | fu | ul
- Trigram
- awf | wfu | ful
- Quadrigram
- awfu | wful
- Word Gram
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- 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";
" - exceptionally bad or displeasing;
"atrocious taste";
"abominable workmanship";
"an awful voice";
"dreadful manners";
"a painful performance";
"terrible handwriting";
"an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" - inspiring awe or admiration or wonder;
"New York is an amazing city";
"the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight";
"the awesome complexity of the universe";
"this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville;
"We - inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence;
"awed by the silence";
"awful worshippers with bowed heads"
- Article Examples
- offensive or even (of persons) malicious;
"in a nasty mood";
"a nasty accident";
"a nasty shock";
"a nasty smell";
"a nasty trick to pull";
"Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound
- Adverb Examples
- used as intensifiers;
"terribly interesting";
"I'm awful sorry"
Synonym | Definition |
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Aberrant | one whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group |
Abhorrent | offensive to the mind "an abhorrent deed" "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee" "morally repugnant customs" "repulsive behavior" "the most repulsive character in recent novels" |
Abnormal | much greater than the normal "abnormal profits" "abnormal ambition" |
Abominable | exceptionally bad or displeasing "atrocious taste" "abominable workmanship" "an awful voice" "dreadful manners" "a painful performance" "terrible handwriting" "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room" |
Absolute | something that is conceived to be absolute something that does not depends on anything else and is beyond human control "no mortal being can influence the absolute" |
Acute | a mark ('') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation |
Acute Accent | |
Adverse | in an opposing direction "adverse currents" "a contrary wind" |
Agonising | extremely painful |
Agonizing | extremely painful |
View all cognitive synonyms for Awful
Anagram | Definition |
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Awful | 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" " |
View English words with the unique letters used in awful. Words With The Letters Afluw
Similar Word | Definition |
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Alarming | causing alarm or fear |
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Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
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Awful (5 letters) | 11 | 13 | awful | ||
Lawful (6 letters) | 12 +1 | 15 +2 | lawful | ||
Awfully (7 letters) | 16 +5 | 18 +5 | awfully |
Awful Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With A
- Ends With L
- Spelled With / Contains Letters