{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈɔfəl" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/awful.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/awful.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English agheful, awfull, auful, aȝefull, equivalent to awe + -ful. Compare Old English eġeful, eġefull (“terrifying; awful”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Very bad.\nThe smell of my socks is awful.\nWe saw such an awful film last night that we left the theater before the end." }, { "mean": "Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.\nan awful bonnet\nI have learnt an awful amount today.\n2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2 AI Core Room:Shepard: You seem to know an awful lot about me.Geth: Extranet data sources. Insecure broadcasts. All organic data sent out is received. We watch you." }, { "mean": "(dated) Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible.\n1839, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Schalken the Painter\nThere 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." }, { "mean": "(now rare) Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive.\nAlternative form: awe-ful\n1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 56, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book I, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:God ought not to be commixed in our actions, but with awful reverence, and an attention full of honour and respect.\n1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.143:\nAnd then she stopped, and stood as if in awe / (For sleep is awful) .\n1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 124:If the keepers of the sacred corral discovered paternity in their stock breeding, then that knowledge would have been seen as numinous, awe-ful, and unconsciously unsettling." }, { "mean": "(now rare) Struck or filled with awe or reverence.\n1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in The History of Pendennis. , volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1849–1850, →OCLC:She spoke about Mr. Pendennis (a worthy little gentleman enough, but there are others as good as he) with an awful reverence, as if he had been the Pope of Rome on his throne, and she a cardinal kneeling at his feet, and giving him incense." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Terror-stricken." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(colloquial) Awfully; dreadfully; terribly.\n1933 January 21, The Sydney Sportsman, page 1:The race was run, and the dog ran \"awful\"." }, { "mean": "(colloquial, US, Canada) Very, extremely.\nThat's an awful big house.\nShe seemed awful nice when I met her yesterday.\nHe was blubbering away something awful." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "awful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. 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