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Results for: "awful"

Translating from English to Norwegian

Translations:

awful — causing fear
→ forferdelig
→ grusom
awful — very bad
→ forferdelig
→ skrekkelig

More translations:

awful
→ forferdelig
awful
→ forferdelig, grusom

Additional Definitions (WordNet):


ADJECTIVE (6)

1. exceptionally bad or displeasing;
- Example: "atrocious taste"
- Example: "abominable workmanship"
- Example: "an awful voice"
- Example: "dreadful manners"
- Example: "a painful performance"
- Example: "terrible handwriting"
- Example: "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
[syn: atrocious, abominable, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable]

2. causing fear or dread or terror;
- Example: "the awful war"
- Example: "an awful risk"
- Example: "dire news"
- Example: "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"
- Example: "the dread presence of the headmaster"
- Example: "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"
- Example: "a dreadful storm"
- Example: "a fearful howling"
- Example: "horrendous explosions shook the city"
- Example: "a terrible curse"
[syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]

3. offensive or even (of persons) malicious;
- Example: "in a nasty mood"
- Example: "a nasty accident"
- Example: "a nasty shock"
- Example: "a nasty smell"
- Example: "a nasty trick to pull"
- Example: "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound
[syn: nasty, awful]

4. inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence;
- Example: "awed by the silence"
- Example: "awful worshippers with bowed heads"
[syn: awed, awful]

5. extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact;
- Example: "in a frightful hurry"
- Example: "spent a frightful amount of money"
[syn: frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous]

6. inspiring awe or admiration or wonder;
- Example: "New York is an amazing city"
- Example: "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"
- Example: "the awesome complexity of the universe"
- Example: "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville
- Example: "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"
[syn: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing]


ADVERB (1)

1. used as intensifiers;
- Example: "terribly interesting"
- Example: "I'm awful sorry"
[syn: terribly, awfully, awful, frightfully]