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Aw"ful (&unr_;), a. 1. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene. “The hour of Nature's awful throes.” Hemans.
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2. Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive.
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Heaven's awful Monarch. Milton.
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3. Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken. [Obs.]
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A weak and awful reverence for antiquity. I. Watts.
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4. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding. [Obs.]
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Thrust from the company of awful men. Shak.
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5. Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [Slang]
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Syn. -- See Frightful.
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