Awful vs Cataclysmic - What's the difference?
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Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive.
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Struck or filled with awe.
(obsolete) Terror-stricken.
Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding.
Exceedingly great; usually applied intensively.
Very bad.
(colloquial) Very, extremely; as, an awful big house.
Of or pertaining to a cataclysm; causing great destruction or upheaval; catastrophic.
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Awful is a related term of cataclysmic.
As adjectives the difference between awful and cataclysmic
is that awful is oppressing with fear or horror; appalling, terrible while cataclysmic is of or pertaining to a cataclysm; causing great destruction or upheaval; catastrophic.As an adverb awful
is (colloquial) very, extremely; as, an awful big house.awful
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Alternative forms
* awfull (archaic)Adjective
(en-adj)- God ought not to be commixed in our actions, but with awful reverence, and an attention full of honour and respect.
- And then she stopped, and stood as if in awe / (For sleep is awful ).
- an awful bonnet
- I have learnt an awful amount today.
- My socks smell awful .
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "awful" is often applied: day, truth, time, place, moment, mess, night, news, state, situation, smell, thought, person, pain, movie, consequence, crime, fate, death, tragedy, man, event, disease, story, condition, mistake, taste, picture, year, calamity, doom, film, catastrophe, secret, performance, storm, end, week, shape, choice.Synonyms
* See alsoAdverb
(-)See also
* awfully.External links
* *cataclysmic
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Adjective
(-)- It is believed that a cataclysmic impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
My Women
- That’s why to be rejected in love was so cataclysmic : one had been judged and found wanting.