English-Thai Dictionary

awful

ADJ น่ากลัว  น่าสะพรึงกลัว  terrible dreadful appalling na-klua

 

awful

ADJ แย่มาก  ไม่ น่าพอใจ  terrible disagreeable yae-mak

 

awfully

ADV อย่าง เลวร้าย  poorly horribly badly yang-leol-rai

 

awfulness

N ความ น่ากลัว  ความ น่าเลื่อมใส ศรัทธา 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AWFUL

a.[awe and full. ] 1. That strikes with awe; that fills with profound reverence; as the awful majesty of Jehovah.
2. That fills with terror and dread; as the awful approach of death.
3. Struck with awe; scrupulous.
A weak and awful reverence for antiquity.
Shakespeare uses it for worshipful, inspiring respect by authority or dignity.
Our common people use this word in the sense of frightful, ugly, detestable.

 

AWFULLY

adv. In a manner to fill with awe; in a reverential manner.

 

AWFULNESS

n. 1. The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; solemnity; as, "the awfulness of this sacred place. "
2. The state of being struck with awe.
A help to prayer, producing in us reverence and awfulness.
[Not legitimate. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

AWFUL

AWFUL Aw "ful, a.

 

1. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene. "The hour of Nature's awful throes. " Hemans.

 

2. Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive. Heaven's awful Monarch. Milton.

 

3. Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken. [Obs. ] A weak and awful reverence for antiquity. I. Watts.

 

4. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding. [Obs. ] Thrust from the company of awful men. Shak.

 

5. Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [Slang ]

 

Syn. -- See Frightful.

 

AWFULLY

AWFULLY Aw "ful *ly, adv.

 

1. In an awful manner; in a manner to fill with terror or awe; fearfully; reverently.

 

2. Very; excessively. [Slang ]

 

AWFULNESS

AWFULNESS Aw "ful *ness, n.

 

1. The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place. The awfulness of grandeur. Johnson.

 

2. The state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity; profound reverence. [Obs. ] Producing in us reverence and awfulness. Jer. Taylor.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

awful

aw ful |ˈôfəl ˈɔfəl | ▶adjective 1 very bad or unpleasant: the place smelled awful | I look awful in a swimsuit | an awful speech. • extremely shocking; horrific: awful, bloody images. • [ attrib. ] used to emphasize the extent of something, esp. something unpleasant or negative: I've made an awful fool of myself. • (of a person ) very unwell, troubled, or unhappy: I felt awful for being so angry with him | you look awful —you should go and lie down. 2 archaic inspiring reverential wonder or fear. ▶adverb [ as submodifier ] informal awfully; very: we're an awful long way from the main road. PHRASES an awful lot a very large amount; a great deal: we've had an awful lot of letters | you've still got an awful lot to learn. DERIVATIVES aw ful ness noun ORIGIN Old English (see awe, -ful ).

 

awfulize

aw ful ize |ˈôfəˌlīz ˈɔfəlaɪz | ▶verb [ with obj. ] informal imagine (a situation ) to be as bad as it can possibly be: I awfulized the upcoming confrontation I was planning to have with my boss.

 

awfully

aw ful ly |ˈôf (ə )lē ˈɔf (ə )li | ▶adverb 1 [ as submodifier ] (used esp. in spoken English ) very: I'm awfully sorry to bother you so late | an awfully nice man. 2 very badly or unpleasantly: we played awfully.

 

Oxford Dictionary

awful

awful |ˈɔːfʊl | ▶adjective 1 very bad or unpleasant: the place smelled awful | I look awful in a swimsuit | an awful speech. • extremely shocking; horrific: awful, bloody images. • (of a person ) very unwell or troubled: I felt awful for being so angry with him | you look awful —you should go and lie down. 2 [ attrib. ] used to emphasize the extent of something, especially something unpleasant or negative: I've made an awful fool of myself. 3 archaic inspiring reverential wonder or fear. ▶adverb [ as submodifier ] informal, chiefly N. Amer. awfully; very: we're an awful long way from the motorway. PHRASES an awful lot a very large amount; a great deal: we've had an awful lot of letters. DERIVATIVES awfulness noun ORIGIN Old English (see awe, -ful ).

 

awfulize

aw ful ize |ˈôfəˌlīz ˈɔfəlaɪz | ▶verb [ with obj. ] informal imagine (a situation ) to be as bad as it can possibly be: I awfulized the upcoming confrontation I was planning to have with my boss.

 

awfully

aw |ful ¦ly |ˈɔːfʊli | ▶adverb 1 [ as submodifier ] informal very: I'm awfully sorry to bother you so late | an awfully nice man. • very much: thanks awfully for the tea, Mr Oakley. 2 very badly or unpleasantly: we played awfully.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

awful

awful adjective 1 the place smelled awful: disgusting, horrible, terrible, dreadful, ghastly, nasty, vile, foul, revolting, repulsive, repugnant, odious, sickening, nauseating; informal yucky, gross, beastly. ANTONYMS wonderful, lovely. 2 an awful book: terrible, atrocious, dreadful, frightful, execrable, abominable; inadequate, inferior, substandard, lamentable; informal crummy, pathetic, rotten, woeful, lousy, appalling, abysmal. ANTONYMS good, excellent. 3 an awful accident: serious, dreadful, grave, terrible, bad, critical. ANTONYMS minor. 4 you look awful —go lie down: ill, unwell, sick, queasy, nauseous; poorly; informal lousy, rotten, terrible, dreadful. 5 I felt awful for getting so angry: remorseful, guilty, ashamed, contrite, sorry, regretful, repentant. 6 archaic the awful sights of nature: awe-inspiring, awesome, impressive; dread, fearful.

 

awfully

awfully adverb 1 informal an awfully nice man: very, extremely, really, immensely, exceedingly, thoroughly, exceptionally, remarkably, extraordinarily; informal terrifically, terribly, seriously, majorly, real, mighty, awful; informal, dated frightfully; archaic exceeding. 2 we played awfully: very badly, terribly, poorly, dreadfully, atrociously, appallingly, execrably; informal abysmally, pitifully, diabolically; rare egregiously.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

awful

awful adjective 1 the place smelled awful: very unpleasant, disgusting, nasty, terrible, dreadful, ghastly, horrid, horrible, vile, foul, abominable, appalling, atrocious, horrendous, hideous, offensive, objectionable, obnoxious, frightful, loathsome, revolting, repulsive, repellent, repugnant, odious, sickening, nauseating, nauseous; informal gruesome, diabolical, yucky, sick-making, God-awful, gross, from hell, icky; Brit. informal grotty, beastly; N. Amer. informal hellacious, lousy; literary noisome; archaic disgustful, loathly. ANTONYMS lovely, wonderful. 2 I think it's an awful book: very bad, poor, dreadful, terrible, frightful, atrocious, hopeless, inadequate, inferior, unsatisfactory, substandard, laughable, lamentable, execrable; informal crummy, pathetic, rotten, useless, woeful, lousy, appalling, abysmal, dire, poxy, God-awful; Brit. informal duff, chronic, rubbish, a load of pants; vulgar slang crap, shit, chickenshit; rare egregious. ANTONYMS good, excellent. 3 Ronnie's awful accident at the crossroads: serious, grave, bad, terrible, dreadful, alarming, critical. ANTONYMS slight, minor. 4 you look awful —you should go and lie down: ill, unwell, washed out, peaky; sick, queasy, nauseous, nauseated, green about the gills; faint, dizzy, giddy; Brit. off, off colour, poorly; informal rough, lousy, rotten, terrible, dreadful, crummy; Brit. informal grotty, ropy; Scottish informal wabbit, peely-wally; Austral. /NZ informal crook; dated queer, seedy; rare peaked, peakish. 5 I felt awful for being so angry with him: remorseful, conscience-stricken, guilty, guilt-ridden, ashamed, chastened, contrite, sorry, full of regret, regretful, repentant, penitent, shamefaced, self-reproachful, apologetic. 6 archaic the awful and majestic sights of nature: awe-inspiring, awesome, impressive, amazing; dread, fearful.

 

awfully

awfully adverb 1 an awfully nice man: very, extremely, really, exceedingly, immensely, thoroughly, decidedly, terribly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, exceptionally, uncommonly, remarkably, eminently, extraordinarily, most, positively, particularly; heartily, profoundly; N. English right; Scottish unco; N. Amer. quite; French très; informal terrifically, tremendously, desperately, devilishly, ultra, too … for words, mucho, mega, seriously, oh-so, madly, majorly; Brit. informal jolly, ever so, dead, well, fair; N. Amer. informal real, mighty, awful, plumb, powerful; S. African informal lekker; informal, dated devilish, hellish; archaic exceeding, sore. 2 we played awfully: very badly, atrociously, terribly, dismally, dreadfully, appallingly, execrably, poorly, incompetently, inexpertly; informal abysmally, pitifully, crummily, diabolically, rottenly; rare egregiously. 3 informal, dated thanks awfully for the tea: very much, a lot; informal a million.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

awful

aw ful /ɔ́ːf (ə )l , 3 では ɔ́ːfʊl / (! aw-は /ɔː /) →awe 形容詞 more ～; most ～1 a. とても悪い, ひどい , 不愉快な ; 気分 [具合 ]が悪い ; «…が » 下手な «at » ▸ an awful smell [experience ]ひどいにおい [経験 ]▸ What an awful job this is! なんてひどい仕事だ ▸ feel awful 申し訳なく思う ; 具合が悪い ▸ How awful (for Laura )!｟話 ｠(ローラには )さんざんだったね b. 〈天候 状況などが 〉すさまじい, 恐ろしい ▸ an awful fire [storm ]恐ろしい火事 [あらし ].2 ｟話 ｠〖名詞 の前で 〗ものすごい, ひどく多い 〈数 量など 〉▸ He knows an awful lot about computers .彼はコンピュータの事をものすごくたくさん知っている ▸ It's an awful waste of time .すごい時間のむだだ 3 ｟文 ｠荘厳な (awe-inspiring ).副詞 ｟主に米話 ｠〖形容詞 の前で 〗とても, ものすごく ▸ an awful big man すごい大きな男 ▸ It looks awful good to me .それ, すごくよさそうだな ～ness 名詞 U ひどさ, すさまじさ, ものすごさ, 恐ろしさ .

 

awfully

aw ful ly /ɔ́ːfli /副詞 1 ｟話 ｠ものすごく, とても (!｟英 ｠では女性に好まれる傾向がある ) ▸ It was awfully nice [good ] of you .本当にご親切さまでした ▸ I'm awfully sorry .大変申し訳ありません 2 大変悪く, 不愉快に ▸ behave [be treated ] awfully 行儀がとても悪い [ひどい扱いを受ける ]3 ｟かたく 詩 ｠うやうやしく, 荘厳に .