LekhoriLekhoriVery bad.
The smell of my socks is awful.
Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
an awful bonnet
Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
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 effectually checked the testy comment which had at once risen to the lips of the irritated artist.
Awfully; dreadfully; terribly.
The race was run, and the dog ran "awful".
Very, extremely.
That's an awful big house.
From Middle English agheful, awfull, auful, aȝefull, equivalent to awe + -ful. Compare Old English eġeful, eġefull (“terrifying; awful”). The “very bad” sense is a pejorative semantic shift from the o...
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