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awful
adjective as in very bad; terrible
Strongest matches
appalling, atrocious, depressing, dire, disgusting, distressing, dreadful, frightful, ghastly, gruesome, harrowing, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, nasty, shocking, tough, ugly, unpleasant
Example Sentences
Taylor-O’Connor: It’s awful, but when you lose a pet, the world sees it like you’ve lost maybe a quarter of a human, or a half of a human.
The emotion, the bonkerdom, the ridiculous high of winning this game and the awful low of losing.
"We had to wear these awful BBC Two blouses," Ms Brown said.
Mr Brown said the facility in which Mrs Hughes-Brown has been detained is "awful", adding that detainees are getting unhealthy food and are not having their medical needs met.
“It was awful,” Appel, now 42 and married to another man, recalled.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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