Meaning & use
awful
Extremely unpleasant, bad, or of very poor quality.
See it in a sentence
The weather was awful all weekend, so we stayed indoors and watched movies.
I still feel awful about completely forgetting your birthday yesterday.
A note on using this word
Also used informally as an intensifier before another adjective, as in 'an awful lot of money.'
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
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