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awful - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: awful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: very bad; terrible
Synonyms: abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, deplorable, depressing, dire, disgusting, distressing, dreadful, fearful, frightful, ghastly, gross*, gruesome, grungy*, harrowing, hideous, horrible, nasty, offensive, raunchy, repulsive, shocking, stinking, synthetic, tough, ugly, unpleasant, unsightly, grody, horrendous, horrific, horrifying
Antonyms: beautiful, good, pleasing, ok
Main Entry: abominable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: awful, detestable
Synonyms: abhorrent, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, contemptible, cursed, despicable, disgusting, foul, grim, gross*, hairy*, hateful, heinous, hellish, horrible, loathsome, lousy, nauseating, obnoxious, odious, offensive, repellent, reprehensible, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, sleazy*, stinking, terrible, vile, wretched, grody, horrid
Antonyms: alluring, appealing, delightful, desirable, enjoyable, lovable, pleasant, sweet, wonderful, likeable
Main Entry: appalling
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: horrifying
Synonyms: alarming, astounding, awful, bad, dire, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, grim, gross*, harrowing, heavy*, hideous, horrible, intimidating, mean, shocking, terrible, terrifying, daunting, disheartening, dismaying, grody, horrid, horrific, petrifying, scaring, the end, unnerving
Antonyms: comforting, encouraging, satisfying, reassuring
Main Entry: awesome
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: amazing
Synonyms: alarming, astonishing, awe-inspiring, awful, beautiful, breathtaking, dreadful, exalted, fearful, formidable, frantic, frightening, grand, hairy*, horrible, imposing, impressive, intimidating, magnificent, majestic, mean, mind-blowing*, moving, nervous, overwhelming, shocking, striking, stunning, terrible, terrifying, wonderful, wondrous, daunting, fearsome, horrifying, real gone, something else, stupefying, zero cool
Antonyms: unamazing
Main Entry: creepy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nasty, scary
Synonyms: awful, direful, disgusting, disturbing, dreadful, eerie, frightening, ghoulish, gruesome, hair-raising, horrible, itchy, macabre, menacing, nightmarish, ominous, sinister, terrifying, threatening, unpleasant, weird, itching, shuddersome
Antonyms: good, nice, normal, pleasant, pleasing, unscary
Main Entry: despicable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hateful; beyond contempt
Synonyms: abject, awful, base, beastly, cheap, contemptible, degrading, detestable, dirty, disgraceful, disreputable, down, ignominious, infamous, insignificant, loathsome, low, mean, pitiful, reprehensible, shameful, slimy*, sordid, vile, worthless, wretched, low-life, no-good
Antonyms: desirous, honorable, respectable, virtuous, worthy, likeable, loveable
Main Entry: detestable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: loathsome, abominable
Synonyms: abhorrent, accursed, atrocious, awful, despicable, disgusting, execrable, gross*, hateful, heinous, lousy, maggot, monstrous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, shocking, sorry, vile, abhorred, godawful, grody, hateable, horrid, low-down
Antonyms: admirable, adorable, respectable, respected, adored, cherished, likeable, loveable, prized
Main Entry: direful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fearful; horrible
Synonyms: apocalyptic, appalling, awful, baleful, baneful, calamitous, dreadful, fateful, ghastly, gloomy, ill-boding, inauspicious, ominous, shocking, terrible, terrific, unlucky, unpropitious, horrid
Antonyms: good, nice
Main Entry: disgusting
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sickening; repulsive
Synonyms: abominable, awful, beastly, cloying, creepy, detestable, distasteful, foul, frightful, ghastly, gross*, gruesome, hateful, hideous, icky*, loathsome, lousy, macabre, monstrous, nasty, nauseating, noisome, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, repellent, repugnant, revolting, rotten, scandalous, shameless, shocking, sleazy*, stinking, vile, vulgar, yucky*, grody, horrid, horrific, nerdy, satiating, scuzzy, sleazeball, surfeiting, yecchy
Antonyms: attractive, desirous, pleasant, pleasing
Main Entry: dread
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: horrible, terrifying
Synonyms: alarming, awe-inspiring, awful, creepy*, dire, frightening, frightful, terrible, shuddersome
Antonyms: pleasant, pleasing, welcomed, wonderful
Main Entry: dreadful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: horrible, frightening
Synonyms: abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, beastly, creepy*, dire, distressing, fearful, formidable, frightful, frozen, ghastly, grievous, grim, gross*, hideous, icky*, lousy, mean, monstrous, rotten, shameful, shocking, spooky, terrible, terrific, tragic, tremendous, wicked, godawful, grody, horrendous, horrific, shuddersome
Antonyms: pleasant, pleasing, welcomed, wonderful
Main Entry: fierce
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: violent, menacing
Synonyms: angry, animal, ape, awful, barbarous, bloodthirsty, blustery, boisterous, bold, brutal, cruel, cutthroat*, dangerous, enraged, fell, feral, ferocious, fiery, frightening, furious, horrible, impetuous, infuriated, intense, malevolent, malign, murderous, passionate, powerful, primitive, raging, raving, relentless, savage, stormy, strong, tempestuous, terrible, threatening, truculent, tumultous/tumultuous, uncontrollable, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious, wild, brutish, flipped, howling, tigerish
Antonyms: calm, gentle, kind, meek, nonviolent, peaceful, tame, tender, unthreatening
Main Entry: flagrant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: flaunting, blatant; without shame
Synonyms: arrant, atrocious, awful, bold, brazen, capital, conspicuous, crying, disgraceful, dreadful, egregious, enormous, flaming, flashy*, glaring, gross*, heinous, immodest, infamous, noticeable, notorious, obvious, open, ostentatious, out-and-out*, outrageous, rank, scandalous, shameful, shameless, shocking, striking, wicked, bare-faced, flagitous, grody, hanging out, stick out like sore thumb, undisguised
Notes: flagrant implies shocking and reprehensible, while blatant is obvious, contrived, and usually obnoxious; flagrant is a stronger term than blatant
Antonyms: concealed, disguised, hidden, mild, moral, restrained, secret
Main Entry: grisly
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: horrifying
Synonyms: abominable, appalling, awful, bloody, disgusting, dreadful, eerie, frightful, ghastly, grim, gross*, gruesome, hideous, horrible, lurid, macabre, sanguine, shocking, sick, sickening, terrible, terrifying, yucky*, blood-stained, grody, horrid
Antonyms: nice, pleasing, pretty
Main Entry: hateful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nasty, obnoxious
Synonyms: abhorrent, abominable, accursed, awful, bitter, catty*, confounded, cursed, damnable, damned, despicable, detestable, disgusting, evil, execrable, forbidding, foul, gross, heinous, infamous, invidious, loathsome, malevolent, malign, mean, odious, offensive, ornery*, pesky, pestiferous, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, spiteful, undesirable, vicious, vile, blasted, cussed, despiteful, horrid, resentful, shuddersome, uncool
Antonyms: friendly, kind, likable, lovable, nice, pleasant, polite
Main Entry: heinous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: horrifying, monstrous
Synonyms: abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, awful, bad, beastly, crying, cursed, evil, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, frightful, grave, gross*, hateful, hideous, infamous, iniquitous, nefarious, odious, offensive, outrageous, raunchy, revolting, scandalous, shocking, stinking*, unspeakable, vicious, villainous, godawful, horrendous
Antonyms: glorious, good, lovely, magnificent, wonderful
Main Entry: highly
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: very, well
Synonyms: awful, awfully, bloody*, decidedly, deeply, eminently, exceedingly, exceptionally, extraordinarily, extremely, greatly, jolly, mighty, notably, plenty, powerful, profoundly, real, really, right, so, terribly, too much*, tremendously, vastly, but good, hugely, immensely, mucho, parlous, remarkably, so much, strikingly, supremely, surpassingly, terrifically, very much
Antonyms: little
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