Awfullest vs Awfulest - What's the difference?
awfullest | awfulest |
(awful)
Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence or respect; profoundly impressive.
*, I.56:
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.143:
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.
(awful)
* {{quote-book, year=1872, author=Sophia May (Rebecca Sophia Clarke), title=Little Folks Astray, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It's the awfulest city that ever I saw. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1896, author=, title=Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The awfulest thing was the silence; there wasn't a sound but the screaking of the saddles, the measured tramplings, and the sneezing of the horses, afflicted by the smothering dust-clouds which they kicked up. }}
As adjectives the difference between awfullest and awfulest
is that awfullest is superlative of awful while awfulest is superlative of awful.awfullest
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(head)awful
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* 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
* *awfulest
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