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awful

/ˈɔfəl/ adjetivo A2

En español: infumable, malísimo, espantoso

  1. Very bad. · The smell of my socks is awful.· We saw such an awful film last night that we left the theater before the end.
  2. Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively. · I have learnt an awful amount today.
  3. Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible. (dated)

Comparativo awfuller · Superlativo awfullest

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The baby’s awful fractious, and I’m clean worn out attending to him.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 58 · C1
I suppose you think I have an awful temper, but I couldn’t help it.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 68 · C1
The little girls of Avonlea school always pooled their lunches, and to eat three raspberry tarts all alone or even to share them only with one’s best chum would have forever and ever branded as “awful mean” the girl who did it.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 105 · C1
Ruby Gillis, who got a glimpse of it as it went down, told the others going home from school that she’d “acksually never seen anything like it--it was so white, with awful little red spots in it.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 118 · C1

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