awful的意思和读音

awful

: [ˈɔf(ə)l] : [ˈɔːf(ə)l]

adj.

adv.

adj.+n.awful lot,awful weather,awful thing,awful mess,awful truth

adv.+v.awful smell

adj.dreadful,terrible,appalling,unpleasant,horrible

awfuladj.

1.(informal)very bad or unpleasant

That's an awful colour.

‘They didn't even offer to pay.’ ‘Oh that's awful.’“。”“。”

It's awful, isn't it?

The weather last summer was awful.

I feel awful about forgetting her birthday.

to look/feel awful(= to look/feel ill)

There's an awful smell in here.

The awful thing is, it was my fault.

2.(informal)used to emphasize sth, especially that there is a large amount or too much of sth

It's going to cost an awful lot of money.

There's not an awful lot of room.

I feel an awful lot better than I did yesterday.

I had an awful job persuading him to come(= it was very difficult) .

3.very shocking

the awful horrors of war

adv.

1.(informal)very; extremely

Clint is awful smart.

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adj.1ed for emphasizing how unpleasant sb. or sth., sb. very bad at doing sth., very cruel or unkind, sth. very serious or severe2ed for emphasizing a particular quality

adv.1.<spoken>used for emphasizing what you are saying, mainly used in American English

1. aware a. awful a. accent n. ...

2. unfriendly ; awful ; delicious ...

3. away adv. awful adj. , B B.C adj. ...

4. way 71 awful time () ...

5. almost!- awful!- allow me!- ...

6. we () awful ; all ; ...

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1.It's hard to disappoint them. When my grades even begin to drop at all, I feel as though I've failed. It's an awful feeling.

2.If that hill didn't change its shape on bad nights there would be an awful steamboat grave-yard around here inside of a year.线

3.He felt that this silence was God's judgment; that all creation had been stilled before the just and awful wrath of God.

4.He's improved an awful lot over the last few years and I know I'm not the only one who thinks that.

5.It's an awful thing to live in the dark, unable to see what others take for granted.

6.She looked up at him quickly, but he was ready for her. He had banished from his face the awful despair that he carried in his soul.

7.She said she had a sore throat and was feeling awful.

8.THE dramatic $2-a-share rescue of Bear Stearns was, almost everyone agreed at the time, the best way out of an awful situation.2

9.He remembered uneasily the awful glow of her skin and the distracting clarity of her eyes.

10.i ' m ashamed to say this , but i was in a rock band and we were really awful , but a fun thing for me to do.