Get to know Awful better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like terrible or dreadful.
Awful meaning
- Very bad.
- Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
- Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
Synonyms of Awful
Using Awful
- The main meaning on this page is: Very bad. | Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively. | Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
- Useful related words include: terrible, dreadful, frightening, fearsome.
- In the example corpus, awful often appears in combinations such as: an awful, awful lot, the awful.
Context around Awful
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Awful
- In this selection, "awful" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, particularly, get, truly, team, situation and wrs stand out and add context to how "awful" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a particularly awful situation at and against this awful disease. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "awful" sits close to words such as inaugural, kilometres and pork, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with awful
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
American ones are awful. (4 words)
And some truly awful micro-management. (6 words)
Obviously, humans are capable of awful, awful things. (8 words)
All seems to be going well until the home’s wifi goes down, an awful matter made even worse when a pair of strangers, G.H. (Ali) and his daughter Ruth (Herrold) show up at the front door insisting that the house belongs to them. (45 words)
But it used to be just a minority that were awful to me and now it seems like a majority have only stuck around to chime in occasionally with their opinion of how much they hate me or how awful I am. (42 words)
We love you, but so many things said in this article are just awful awful, no-good, anti-freedom and anti-liberty, akin to what many people used to say about jehovah witness and some moslems back in the 90s in Eritrea. (42 words)
And third, what would be so awful about our too-big, too-profligate government grinding to a halt for a week or so? (23 words)
Example sentences (20)
An awful team that has traction is not an awful team.
Sure a lot of that had too do with green Bay’s awful team and awful WRs.
But it used to be just a minority that were awful to me and now it seems like a majority have only stuck around to chime in occasionally with their opinion of how much they hate me or how awful I am.
That’s why when you go to some of those substations today, it’s awful, the only thing you see that are new on the network are these metres they are using in collecting money, the backend infrastructure are awful.
And similarly, an actor can be really made amazing when they are amazing and they can be awful when they are awful.
Over the course of the game, we see the awful depths Shinra plumbed with their experiments, some of the awful critters that were produced.
It is very easy to think that we are in a particularly awful situation, at the mercy of particularly awful forces.
Obviously, humans are capable of awful, awful things.
We love you, but so many things said in this article are just awful awful, no-good, anti-freedom and anti-liberty, akin to what many people used to say about jehovah witness and some moslems back in the 90s in Eritrea.
You keep going, even when things are awful, and even when things start to look a little bit better for just a second, and even when things get awful again.
Accepting what happened in the past is simply a realization that something really awful happened to you, and that your life has changed because of it.
After opting for title loans, borrowers end up in an awful situation and fall into a debt trap.
Alan said: “This is a nightmare situation, when Holly went to the States, we expected her to be home in two weeks rested and recuperated, ready to continue the fight against this awful disease.
All seems to be going well until the home’s wifi goes down, an awful matter made even worse when a pair of strangers, G.H. (Ali) and his daughter Ruth (Herrold) show up at the front door insisting that the house belongs to them.
American ones are awful.
And he was still there, an ever-present at United games even as the awful debilitation of dementia began to grip.
And some truly awful micro-management.
And there's still an awful lot of kitchens in the U.K. that need that wall taken down between the kitchen and the living space, they still got open space.
And third, what would be so awful about our too-big, too-profligate government grinding to a halt for a week or so?
Another added: "They are in an awful state and I would rather not see public money spent on the essential renovations needed when we have adequate provision in Royal Victoria Place and The Amelia Scott.
Common combinations with awful
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an awful 56×
- awful lot 28×
- the awful 17×
- awful and 12×
- is awful 12×
- truly awful 10×
- was awful 7×
- awful to 6×
- this awful 6×
- how awful 5×