awfuller

Adjective

awful (comparative awfuller or more awful, superlative awfullest or most awful)

1. Very bad.
   • The smell of my socks is awful.
2. Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
   • I have learnt an awful amount today.
3. (dated) Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
   • There was an air of gravity and importance about the garb of the person, and something indescribably odd, I might say awful, in the perfect, stonelike stillness of the figure, that effectually checked the testy comment which had at once risen to the lips of the irritated artist.1839, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Schalken the Painter
4. (archaic) Awe-inspiring; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive.
   • As I am seen could I but gaze on Thee / Awful in majesty and royal might1889, Harriet McEwen Kimball, Poems, "Omniscience"

   Synonyms:

   awesome

5. (archaic) Struck or filled with awe or reverence.
   • She spoke about Mr. Pendennis (a worthy little gentleman enough, but there are others as good as he) with an awful reverence, as if he had been the Pope of Rome on his throne, and she a cardinal kneeling at his feet, and giving him incense.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850...
6. (obsolete) Terror-stricken.

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