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AWFUL
“Meat” Used To Mean “Food” And Other Meanings That Narrowed Over Time
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AWFUL
smarting
adjective
painful
aching
achy
afflictive
agonizing
arduous
awful
biting
burning
caustic
difficult
dire
disagreeable
distasteful
distressing
dreadful
excruciating
extreme
extremely bad
grievous
hard
harrowing
hurtful
hurting
inflamed
irritated
laborious
nagging
piercing
raw
saddening
sensitive
severe
sharp
sore
stinging
tedious
tender
terrible
throbbing
tormenting
troublesome
trying
uncomfortable
unpleasant
vexatious
terrible
adjective
bad, horrible
abhorrent
appalling
atrocious
awe-inspiring
awesome
awful
beastly
dangerous
desperate
dire
disastrous
disturbing
dread
dreaded
dreadful
extreme
fearful
frightful
ghastly
gruesome
harrowing
hateful
hideous
horrendous
horrid
horrifying
inconvenient
loathsome
monstrous
obnoxious
odious
offensive
petrifying
poor
repulsive
revolting
rotten
serious
severe
shocking
unfortunate
unnerving
unpleasant
unwelcome
vile
terrific
adjective
intense
agitating
appalling
awesome
awful
deafening
disquieting
dreadful
enormous
excessive
extreme
fearful
fierce
formidable
frightful
gigantic
great
harsh
horrible
horrific
huge
immense
large
monstrous
severe
shocking
terrible
terrorizing
thunderous
tremendous
upsetting
terrifying
adjective
frightening
alarming
awful
ghastly
grim
hideous
horrible
horrid
scary
tragic
adjective
catastrophic, very bad
adverse
anguished
appalling
awful
calamitous
cataclysmic
crushing
deadly
deathly
deplorable
desolate
destructive
dire
disastrous
doleful
dreadful
fatal
fateful
forlorn
grievous
grim
hapless
harrowing
heart-rending
heartbreaking
ill-fated
ill-starred
lamentable
miserable
mournful
painful
pathetic
pitiable
pitiful
ruinous
sad
shocking
sorrowful
terrible
unfortunate
unhappy
woeful
wretched
tremendous
adjective
huge, overwhelming
amazing
appalling
astounding
awesome
awful
blimp
colossal
cracking
deafening
dreadful
enormous
excellent
exceptional
extraordinary
fabulous
fantastic
fearful
formidable
frightful
gargantuan
gigantic
great
great big
humongous
immense
incredible
jumbo
large
mammoth
marvelous
massive
mondo
monstrous
monumental
prodigious
stupendous
super
terrible
terrific
titanic
towering
vast
whale
whopper
whopping
wonderful
ugly
adjective
unattractive
animal
appalling
awful
bad-looking
beastly
deformed
disfigured
foul
frightful
grisly
gross
grotesque
hard-featured
hideous
homely
horrid
ill-favored
loathsome
misshapen
monstrous
not much to look at
plain
repelling
repugnant
repulsive
revolting
unbeautiful
uncomely
uninviting
unlovely
unprepossessing
unseemly
unsightly
undescribable
adjective
unspeakable
abominable
alarming
appalling
atrocious
awful
beastly
beyond words
calamitous
defying description
description
detestable
dire
disgusting
dreadful
evil
execrable
fearful
frightening
frightful
heinous
horrible
horrid
incommunicable
inconceivable
indefinable
indescribable
ineffable
inexpressible
inhuman
loathsome
monstrous
nameless
obnoxious
odious
offensive
outrageous
overwhelming
preternatural
repellent
repugnant
repulsive
revolting
shocking
unbelievable
unimaginable
unutterable
unholy
adjective
outrageous
appalling
awful
barbarous
dreadful
horrendous
shocking
uncivilized
unearthly
ungodly
unnatural
unreasonable
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