awful

adjective/ˈɔfəl/

Frequency rank: #2,197 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

Very bad or unpleasant.

Illustration for the English word “awful”

Example sentence

The weather today is so awful that I don't want to go outside.

Synonyms & related words

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