AWFUL

awful. Awful, a. striking awe, terrible, hateful

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Aw″ful (�), a. 1. 1. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene. “The hour of Nature's awful throes.” Hemans.
2. 2. Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive.
Heaven's awful Monarch. Milton. 3. 3. Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.
A weak and awful reverence for antiquity. I. Watts. 4. 4. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
Thrust from the company of awful men. Shak. 5. 5. Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; — applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster.
Syn. — See Frightful.