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awful
adj. dreadful, inspiring fear; impressive, inspiring awe


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Awful
Awful is the third and final single by Hole from their album Celebrity Skin. The lyrics explore how the media and modern pop culture corrupt young girls and how they should rebel. There is, allegedly, a brief allusion to Gavin Rossdale on the lyrics, who once had a fling with Courtney Love.Described as "funny" but also "kind of sad" by the writer herself, Courtney Love has proclaimed that this is one of her most loved songs. Writing the lyrics offered her a backwards glimpse at the angry, determined youth she once was but with the sobering experience of her adult years. The words were written before the music and were initially more than 2 pages long. At the time they included "we are always on the list, we have always wanted this / finally we're popular, finally we're pretty!" Courtney condensed the tome into the current format to give the song a more suitable length.
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awful
Adjective
1. exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"
(synonym) atrocious, abominable, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable
(similar) bad
2. causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse"
(synonym) dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible
(similar) alarming
3. offensive or even (of persons) malicious; "in a nasty mood"; "a nasty accident"; "a nasty shock"; "a nasty smell"; "a nasty trick to pull"; "Will he say nasty things at my funeral?"- Ezra Pound
(synonym) nasty
(similar) dirty, filthy, lousy
(see-also) unpleasant
(attribute) nastiness
4. inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence; "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads"
(synonym) awed
(similar) reverent
5. inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"
(synonym) amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awing
(similar) impressive
Adverb
1. used as intensifiers; "terribly interesting"; "I'm awful sorry"
(synonym) terribly, awfully, frightfully
(classification) colloquialism


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Awful
(a.)
Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
  
 
(a.)
Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken.
  
 
(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.)
Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster.
  

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adj.
ڈراؤنا , بھينکر ,خوف ناک ,ہولناک , مہيب
an awful sound
بھيانک , شبد , مہيب آواز

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