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godawful
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | outrageous; widely condemned |
| Synonyms: | awful, bad, barbaric, beastly, desperate, diabolical, fiendish, flagrant, godawful, grody, gross*, hairy*, heinous, lousy, monstrous, nefarious, rotten, scandalous, shocking, villainous, wicked |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bad |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor quality |
| Synonyms: | abominable, amiss, atrocious, awful, bad news, beastly, blah*, bottom out, bummer, careless, cheap, cheesy*, crappy*, cruddy, crummy, defective, deficient, diddly, dissatisfactory, downer, dreadful, erroneous, fallacious, faulty, garbage, godawful, grody, gross*, grungy, icky, imperfect, inadequate, incorrect, inferior, junky, lousy*, not good, off, poor, raunchy*, rough, sad, slipshod, stinking, substandard, synthetic, the pits, unacceptable, unsatisfactory |
| Notes: | badly is an adverb to describe an activity; bad is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
| Antonyms: | good, honest, reputable, right, upright, virtuous, worthy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deplorable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, shameful |
| Synonyms: | afflictive, awful, blameworthy, bummer, calamitous, dire, dirty, disastrous, disgraceful, dishonorable, disreputable, distressing, dolorous, downer, dreadful, execrable, faulty, godawful, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, heartrending, horrifying, intolerable, lamentable, lousy, melancholy, miserable, mournful, opprobrious, overwhelming, pitiable, poor, regrettable, reprehensible, rotten, sad, scandalous, sickening, stinking, terrible, tragic, unbearable, unsatisfactory, woeful, wretched |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, delightful, excellent, good, happy, shameless |
| Main Entry: | detestable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loathsome, abominable |
| Synonyms: | abhorred, abhorrent, accursed, atrocious, awful, despicable, disgusting, execrable, godawful, grody, gross*, hateable, hateful, heinous, horrid, lousy, low-down, maggot, monstrous, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rotten, shocking, sorry, vile |
| Antonyms: | admirable, adorable, adored, cherished, likeable, loveable, prized, respectable, respected |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dreadful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrible, frightening |
| Synonyms: | abominable, alarming, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, beastly, creepy*, dire, distressing, fearful, formidable, frightful, frozen, ghastly, godawful, grievous, grim, grody, gross*, hideous, horrendous, horrific, icky, lousy, mean, monstrous, rotten, shameful, shocking, shuddersome, spooky, terrible, terrific, tragic, tremendous, wicked |
| Antonyms: | pleasant, pleasing, welcomed, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | heinous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | horrifying, monstrous |
| Synonyms: | abhorrent, abominable, accursed, atrocious, awful, bad, beastly, crying, cursed, evil, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, frightful, godawful, grave, gross*, hateful, hideous, horrendous, infamous, iniquitous, nefarious, odious, offensive, outrageous, raunchy, revolting, scandalous, shocking, stinking, unspeakable, vicious, villainous |
| Antonyms: | glorious, good, lovely, magnificent, wonderful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lamentable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | upsetting, miserable |
| Synonyms: | afflictive, awful, bad, calamitous, deplorable, dire, dirty, distressing, doleful, dolorous, god-awful, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, hurting, lousy, low, lugubrious, meager, mean, melancholy, mournful, pitiful, plaintive, poor, regretful, rotten, rueful, sad, sorrowful, stinking, tragic, unfavorable, unfortunate, unsatisfactory, woeful, wretched |
| Antonyms: | cheering, fortunate, good, lucky, satisfactory |
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