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awfulness
Variant of awful
adjective
- inspiring awe; highly impressive
- causing fear; terrifying
- dreadful; appalling
- full of awe; reverential
- very bad, ugly, unpleasant, etc.: an awful joke
- Informal great: an awful lot of laughing
adverb
Informal very; extremely
Related Forms:
- awfulness noun
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