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Awful Pronunciation

Pronounce Awful as AH W F UW L.

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    Awful phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'awful'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of awful: /æwful/
    • Modern IPA representation of awful: /æwfʊl/

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    List of meaning for awful

    horrible; terrible

    atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable(adj)

    exceptionally bad or displeasing

    "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"

    awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible(adj)

    causing fear or dread or terror

    "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"

    nasty, awful(adj)

    offensive or even (of persons) malicious

    "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound

    awed, awful(adj)

    inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence

    "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads"

    frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous(adj)

    extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact

    "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money"

    amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing(adverb)

    inspiring awe or admiration or wonder

    "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"

    terribly, awfully, awful, frightfully(adverb)

    used as intensifiers

    "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful sorry"

    causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment

    that's an awful thing to say about someone

    causing wonder or astonishment

    the awful power of Niagara Falls

    extremely disturbing or repellent

    spare me the awful details of the murder

    extremely unsatisfactory

    I can't believe I spent good money to see that movie—it was awful

    to a great degree

    that's awful sweet of you

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    awful in sentence

    1. The awful smell from the sewage plant seemed to pervade throughout our house.

    2. The awful movie made the critic wince.

    3. Before I took lessons in elocution, I was an awful speaker.

    4. The manager gave me a free meal as redress for the awful service I received in his restaurant.

    5. During the awful flood, many of the homes in the area had been wiped away completely.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term awful

    If YouTube, Facebook or Twitter employees, rather than computers, were making the recommendations, would they have recommended these awful videos in the first place, companies are letting algorithms run wild and only using humans to clean up the mess ... Algorithms are amoral.

    – Brian Schatz

    I’m gonna support the Republican running against Hillary Clinton because Hillary Clinton would be an awful, awful president for the United States.

    – Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker

    Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.

    – Frederick Douglas

    If you compare the work involved for daily cleaning of the mess and the awful smell, as well as all the collateral damage involved, it has definitely been well worth it.

    – Julia Staron

    A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.

    – Rob Cella

    If you’re going from Al Faw to Basra to Baghdad to Istanbul you’re going to have an awful lot of sites regenerating that signal, they need to be protected, each one of those hops exposes it to more interference.

    – Rory Cole

    It's unfortunate, we should never have comparisons with Hitler, ever. What I hope Sean was trying to say is just how awful Assad is.

    – Nikki Haley

    We are offended that that awful image of our son's brutal murder be used publicly, to tweet it again just continues to promote their propaganda - the horrible way they recruit others who want to be brutal. I certainly do not want that to continue.

    – Diana Foley

    It would be an awful shame if we have this issue hanging over the league for another season.

    – Paul Clement

    The big thing has been the amount of money into smallcaps in general, we have seen an awful lot of money just come pouring in.

    – Steve DeSanctis

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