Dictionary entry

Awfulness

Pronunciation: /ˈɔːfəlnəs/

Pronunciation

/ˈɔːfəlnəs/

Myanmar Meaning

(n) အလွန်အမင်း ဆိုးရွားသော၊ စိတ် မသက်သာဖွယ်ဖြစ်သော အခြေအနေ။

Definition

awful /'ↄ:fl/ adj ၁။ အလြန္အမင္း ဆိုးရြားေသာ၊ စိတ္ မသက္သာ ဖြယ္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ an awful accident/ experience/ shock ❍ The plight of starving people is too awful to think about. ၂။ ( infml ) အလြန္မေကာင္းေသာ။ What awful weather! ❍ I feel awful. ❍ It's an awful nuisance! ❍ The film was awful. ၃။ ( infml ) သိပ္။ အရမ္း။ That's an awful lot of money. ❍ I'm in an awful hurry to get to the bank. adv ( US infml ) အလြန္။ It was awful slow, but it got there. ❏ awfully /'ↄ:fli/ adv ( infml ) အလြန္။ အင္မတန္။ It's awfully hot. ❍ I'm awfully sorry. ❍ It's awfully kind of you. ❍ I am afraid I'm awfully late. ❍ Thanks awfully for the present. awfulness n [U]: the sheer awfulness of the situation.

Examples

  1. This wine tastes awful.
  2. These awful people behind us talked all through the film.
  3. The smell was absolutely awful.
  4. He had the awful feeling that everyone was laughing at him.
  5. I’m awful at remembering names.
  6. He’s an awful actor.
  7. They committed the most awful atrocities.
  8. That’s an awful thing to say.
  9. I was worried that something awful had happened to him.
  10. I made an awful fool of myself last night
  11. didn’t I?
  12. It’s an awful shame to waste all this good food.