(a.) Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.
(a.) Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive.
(a.) Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.
(a.) Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
(a.) Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster.
Example Sentences:
(1) But at the same time I didn't feel like, 'Aw, I'm home!'
(2) It seems like an awfully long way from the ground.” He added: “When I was younger, I dreamed of being an astronaut, but I also wanted to be a policeman or a firebreather.
(3) EEG waves were similar during Aw and Qw but they diminished in amplitude and frequency when passing from these states to Qs, and both parameters increased during As.
(4) In vitro blastogenic responses of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMN) to heterogeneous schistosome-derived antigens (eggs, SEA; adult worms, AW; and cercariae, CERC) were evaluated.
(5) Asked whether the loss of control of the streets was embarrassing, Sir Paul replied: "Well the one thing I would say is that it must have been an awful time for the people trying to go about their daily business in those buildings.
(6) By contrast, storage fungi, especially Aspergillus spp., are able to grow at low water activities (aw, 0.70-0.75) enabling them to initiate grain spoilage.
(7) It was a bit of a nightmare … there wasn't an awful lot I could do."
(8) It’s very, very difficult to feel any optimism about this summit or what it will do for people looking for a safe place for them and their families right at this moment, nor tackle the awful actions of countries who are now thinking, ‘If other countries won’t help take responsibility, then why should we?’ and are now driving back desperate people.
(9) It has been awfully hard-won, carved slowly out of a big block of human agony.
(10) AW: Well, I think a rather terrific movie, actually.
(11) For the AW group the occurrence rate becomes 0.00043 per chromosome per generation for all aberrations and 0.00041 for inversions.
(12) Third, we must do more to strengthen the old principle of contribution: there are lots of people right now who feel they pay an awful lot more in than they ever get back.
(13) "We welcome a consultation, but default filters are awful," said ORG executive director Jim Killock.
(14) All samples are well detected by anti-B from AW, Aend, Ax, Am but none is detected by anti-B from ABx, Cis AB, or by an auto-anti-B.
(15) I even suspect that if Charlotte had truly known what marriage to a man so teeth-gnashingly awful really meant – in a way that no woman without the experience of going out with, let alone sleeping with, someone inappropriate can – she would have made a different choice.
(16) To determine whether the presence of small-intestinal malabsorption is associated with the development of AWS in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients with chronic diarrhea, we retrospectively reviewed the results of D-xylose testing performed in the clinical evaluation of 21 consecutive HIV-infected patients with chronic diarrhea.
(17) The atmospherics between the Athens government and its antagonists, which is now just about every player of importance in the rest of Europe, have been awful for weeks and have got more poisonous as they have neared the crunch.
(18) Cell lines AW 13516 and AW 8507 were derived from poorly differentiated SCC and epidermoid carcinoma of the tongue respectively.
(19) We worked awfully hard for this Premier League status and we don’t want to give it up.” Gylfi Sigurdsson’s 61st-minute strike – his sixth goal in 10 games – settled a scrappy Liberty Stadium contest that failed to spark into life until the Iceland international finished from substitute Leroy Fer’s pass.
(20) 9.27pm BST 67 min: The Argentinian fans are making an awful lot of noise here.
Reverential
Definition:
(a.) Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverent quality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Film-makers appear increasingly willing to use very recent events and are perhaps less reverential than past directors.
(2) When, exactly, did the work "dark" become a reverential compliment, as opposed to merely a neutral description?
(3) Recent television versions, Gatiss fears, have been too reverential and too slow.
(4) He talked about it in very reverential terms, like these were sacred documents.
(5) I'm afraid I didn't enjoy either Django Unchained or Inglourious Basterds – they were too self-reverential for my taste – but, as a writer, nobody in the world has a better ear for the foibles and vulnerabilities of his bad guys than Tarantino.
(6) We know how profoundly significant and sensitive this matter is to victims’ families, especially those whose loved ones have yet to be identified,” the museum’s management says in a section about the repository on its website, adding that the medical examiner’s office believes “this new repository will provide a dignified and reverential setting for the remains to repose – temporarily or in perpetuity – as identifications continue to be made.” The city officials said that they consulted with some victims’ relatives before going ahead with the plan.
(7) Forgive the return to a familiar furrow, but why is it that on the relatively rare occasions these titans concede to interviews, they barely seem to be interrogated, and are spoken to instead in the reverential and admiring tones normally reserved for inventors or eccentric scientists?
(8) If Mullah Saheb is dead, there will be 1,000 other Mullah Sahebs,” he said, using a reverential term for the cleric.
(9) Louis, though, is something of a special case among comedians at the moment, spoken about in hushed, reverential terms by other comics: Patton Oswalt has likened the experience of watching him do stand-up to seeing Richard Pryor at his peak, while longtime friend and collaborator Chris Rock, one of the many famous faces who appear in Louie, describes CK as "some kid I used to beat up" who has suddenly become "Jimi Hendrix" .
(10) We might start treating our knackered old Nissans more like those classic cars that hobbyists spend long nights reverentially restoring in order to drive them very slowly, while wearing special gloves, to country pubs at weekends.
(11) The role has defeated actors as varied as Danny Glover (in the 1987 TV film Mandela), Sidney Poitier (Mandela and de Klerk, 1997, also for TV) and Dennis Haysbert (Goodbye Bafana, 2007), in vehicles that were reverential and mostly forgettable.
(12) That’s great for selling me a product like Apartments.com or any number of self-reverential cameos in movies and TV shows, but can you ever take the man seriously in an actual movie that requires him to play a real character?
(13) David was mainly interested in political influence, and despised the commercialism of Kemsley, whose Sunday Times was conservative and printed reverential editorials about the royal family in italics.
(14) The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw labelled it a "reverential and sentimental biopic … laced with bizarre cardboard dialogue – a tabloid fantasy of how famous and important people speak in private".
(15) They speak in reverential tones of his Easterhouse epiphany : the moment in 2002 when he saw the poverty on a Glasgow estate, brushed a manly tear from his eye and vowed to end the "dependency culture" that kept the poor jobless.
(16) Australians would be foolish to lapse into alliance sentimentality, invoking Anzus mantras with, what Paul Keating has called, a “reverential and sacramental” tone.
(17) At this stage in Corbyn’s journey, endless references to The Mandate are beginning to sound creepily reverential.
(18) It would be sad to see this titan felled by Florentino Pérez at some point in the future but perhaps he is held in such high regard by the club that his reverential status will remain intact whatever happens to the team under his watch.
(19) Reverential tour guides escort small groups past Count Tolstoy's duck pond and up an avenue of high trees.
(20) That was felt to be too dry and reverential in contrast to ITV.