Crossword-Solution: AWFUL 5 letters, 176 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Awful a. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an
awful scene.
Awful a. Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear
and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly
impressive.
Awful a. Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.
Awful a. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
Awful a. Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively;
as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster.

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AWFUL anagram FULWA

We have 176 clues for the answer “AWFUL”

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"The ___ Truth," Dunne-Grant film 1 answer
Absolutely horrid 1 answer
Description of a flop 1 answer
Deserving 0 stars 1 answer
Deserving of a pan 1 answer
Deserving two thumbs down 1 answer
Deserving zero stars 1 answer
Downright terrible 1 answer
Extremely great: Colloq. 1 answer
Extremely poor-quality 1 answer
Extremely unpleasant: Colloq. 1 answer
Hole hit off "Celebrity Skin" 1 answer
Incredibly bad 1 answer
Just horrible 1 answer
Just plain bad 1 answer
Just plain terrible 1 answer
Label for pans? 1 answer
Like "Plan 9 From Outer Space", to many movie critics 1 answer
Like an epic fail 1 answer
Like the performances of Razzie Award recipients 1 answer
Like truth, at times 1 answer
Like truth, sometimes 1 answer
Ludicrous: Slang. 1 answer
Meriting only half a star, say 1 answer
NOTABLE for badness (colloq.) 1 answer
NOTABLE in its kind of thing or person disliked (colloq.) 1 answer
Profoundly disturbing 1 answer
Profoundly disturing 1 answer
Really the pits 1 answer
Reeeal bad 1 answer
Remarkably large 1 answer
Solemnly impressive. 1 answer
Totally terrible 1 answer
Very bad indeed 1 answer
Very great: Colloq. 1 answer
Word that often follows "perfectly" 1 answer
Worth two thumbs down 1 answer
Exceptionally bad 2 answers
Terribly impressive. 2 answers
"Yuck!"-inducing 2 answers
Bad beyond all infinite levels of badness 2 answers
Cringe-worthy 2 answers
Far below par 2 answers
Terribly bad 2 answers
The absolute pits 2 answers
Totally wretched 2 answers
Very disagreeable 2 answers
Worth an "F" 2 answers
Worth no stars 2 answers
Appallingly bad 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with AWFUL (5)

From his place of ambush came he, Striding terrible among them, And so awful was his aspect That the bravest quailed with terror.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone; and as a God Extoll him equal to the highest in Heav’n: Nor fail’d they to express how much they prais’d, That for the general safety he despis’d His own: for neither do the Spirits damn’d Loose all thir vertue; least bad men should boast Thir specious deeds on earth, which glory excites, Or close ambition varnisht o’re with zeal.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
She trusts us.” “How awful it’s been these last three months.” Signa held the lantern so that he could see to buckle the straps.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Bathsheba indulged in contemplations of escape from her position by immediate death, which, thought she, though it was an inconvenient and awful way, had limits to its inconvenience and awfulness that could not be overpassed; whilst the shames of life were measureless.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Say, am I vile? Am I not utterly unclean, a wretch Doomed to be banished, and in banishment Forgo the sight of all my dearest ones, And never tread again my native earth; Or else to wed my mother and slay my sire, Polybus, who begat me and upreared? If one should say, this is the handiwork Of some inhuman power, who could blame His judgment? But, ye pure and awful gods, Forbid, forbid that I should see that day! May I be blotted out from living men Ere such a plague spot set on me its brand! CHORUS.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Quotes with AWFUL (3)

You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.
Stewart O'Nan The Odds: A Love Story
It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be...
Bob Dylan
The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.
Arthur Schopenhauer On the Suffering of the World
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, Slate, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 171 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).