Distasteful vs Awful - What's the difference?
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Having a bad or foul taste.
(figuratively) Unpleasant.
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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.
Distasteful is a related term of awful.
As adjectives the difference between distasteful and awful
is that distasteful is having a bad or foul taste while awful is oppressing with fear or horror; appalling, terrible.As an adverb awful is
(colloquial) very, extremely; as, an awful big house.distasteful
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* distastefull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
Antonyms
* pleasant, pleasingawful
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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 .