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{
"term": "awful",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "very bad or unpleasant",
"labels": "(informal)especially British English",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "That's an awful colour."
},
{
"text": "‘They didn't even offer to pay.’ ‘Oh that's awful.’"
},
{
"text": "I feel awful about forgetting her birthday."
},
{
"text": "**to look/feel awful** *(= to look/feel ill)*"
},
{
"text": "There's an awful smell in here."
},
{
"text": "**The awful thing** is, it was my fault."
},
{
"text": "It **sounds awful** to say it, but the war was exciting."
},
{
"text": "The weather conditions were just awful."
},
{
"text": "It's awful, isn't it?"
},
{
"text": "The weather last summer was awful."
},
{
"text": "The fish tasted awful."
},
{
"text": "a truly awful book"
},
{
"text": "I woke from the most awful nightmare."
}
],
"topics": ["Weather"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
"adverb": ["just", "quite", "really"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "that shocks people very much",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "the awful horrors of war"
},
{
"text": "It was only later that we learned the awful truth."
}
],
"synonyms": "terrible"
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "used to emphasize something, especially that there is a large amount or too much of something",
"labels": "(informal)(British English)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "It's going to cost **an awful lot of** money."
},
{
"text": "There's not an awful lot of room."
},
{
"text": "I feel an awful lot better than I did yesterday."
},
{
"text": "I had an awful job persuading him to come *(= it was very difficult)*."
},
{
"text": "The whole thing has been an awful nuisance."
},
{
"text": "She's the most awful snob."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈɔːfl/",
"audio": "aw/awful/awful__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈɔːfl/",
"audio": "aw/awful/awful__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English (see awe, -ful)."
}