[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

awful \aw"ful\, a.
   1. oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as,
      an awful scene. "the hour of nature's awful throes."
      --hemans.
      1913 webster

   2. inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with
      fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear;
      profoundly impressive.
      1913 webster

            heaven's awful monarch.               --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken. obs.
      1913 webster

            a weak and awful reverence for antiquity. --i.
                                                  watts.
      1913 webster

   4. worshipful; reverential; law-abiding. obs.
      1913 webster

            thrust from the company of awful men. --shak.
      1913 webster

   5. frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively;
      as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. slang
      1913 webster

   syn: see frightful.
        1913 webster
see also:
frightful 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

awful
     adj 1: 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" syn: atrocious, abominable, dreadful,
             painful, terrible, unspeakable
     2: 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"; "a fearful howling";
        "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
        syn: dire, direful, dreada, dreaded, dreadful,
         fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific,
         terrible
     3: 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 syn: nasty ant: nice
     4: inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence;
        "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed
        heads" syn: awed
     5: 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; "westminster hall's awing
        majesty, so vast, so high, so silent" syn: amazing, awe-inspiring,
         awesome, awing
     adv : used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "i'm awful
           sorry" syn: terribly, awfully, frightfully
see also:
atrocious abominable dreadful painful terrible unspeakable 
dire direful dreada dreaded fearful 
fearsome frightening horrendous horrific nasty 
nice awed amazing awe-inspiring awesome 
awing terribly awfully frightfully 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

193 moby thesaurus words for "awful":
   babylonian, corinthian, abominable, appalling, arrant, astounding,
   atrocious, august, awe-inspiring, awesome, awfully, awing, bad,
   baneful, barbaric, base, beastly, beneath contempt, big, bizarre,
   blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, crazy, damned, deadly, deluxe,
   deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, direful, disgusting,
   divine, dread, dreaded, dreadful, eerie, egregious, elaborate,
   elegant, enormous, estimable, execrable, extravagant, extremely,
   fancy, fearful, fell, fetid, filthy, fine, flagrant, forbidding,
   formidable, foul, frightful, fulsome, ghastly, ghoulish, glorious,
   grand, grandiose, grave, greatly, grievous, grim, grisly, gross,
   grotesque, gruesome, hateful, heavenly, heinous, hideous, holy,
   honorable, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying,
   howling, hugely, imposing, impressive, ineffable, inenarrable,
   inexpressible, infamous, inferior, inviolable, inviolate,
   lamentable, loathsome, lousy, luxurious, macabre, magnificent,
   majestic, monstrous, morbid, mortally, moving, much, mysterious,
   nasty, nefarious, noble, noisome, notorious, numinous, obnoxious,
   odious, offensive, ominous, outrageous, palatial, pitiable,
   pitiful, plush, portentous, posh, princely, proud, rank,
   redoubtable, regrettable, religious, repelling, reprehensible,
   repugnant, repulsive, reverend, revolting, ritzy, rotten, rousing,
   sacred, sacrosanct, sad, scandalous, schlock, schrecklich, scurvy,
   serious, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, solemn, sordid,
   spiritual, splendacious, splendid, splendiferous, squalid, stately,
   sumptuous, superb, superfancy, superfine, swank, swanky, swell,
   tasteless, terrible, terribly, terrific, thumping, time-honored,
   too bad, tragic, tremendous, ugly, uncanny, unclean, unpleasant,
   unsightly, unspeakable, untouchable, unutterable, venerable, vile,
   villainous, weird, whacking, whopping, woeful, worshipful, worst,
   worthless, wretched

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