Awful synonyms | Another word for awful

1. very unpleasant

• A load of pants
• Abominable
• Abysmal
• Appalling
• Atrocious
• Beastly
• Chronic
• Crummy
• Diabolical
• Dire
• Disgustful
• Disgusting
• Dreadful
• Duff
• Execrable
• Foul
• Frightful
• From hell
• Ghastly
• Godawful
• Gross
• Grotty
• Gruesome
• Hellacious
• Hideous
• Hopeless
• Horrendous
• Horrible
• Horrid
• Icky
• Inadequate
• Inferior
• Lamentable
• Laughable
• Loathly
• Loathsome
• Lousy
• Nasty
• Nauseating
• Nauseous
• Noisome
• Objectionable
• Obnoxious
• Odious
• Offensive
• Pathetic
• Poor
• Poxy
• Repellent
• Repugnant
• Repulsive
• Revolting
• Rotten
• Rubbish
• Sick-making
• Sickening
• Substandard
• Terrible
• Unsatisfactory
• Useless
• Very bad
• Very unpleasant
• Vile
• Woeful
• Yucky
• Egregious

2. serious

• Alarming
• Bad
• Dreadful
• Grave
• Serious
• Terrible
• Critical

3. ill

• Ashamed
• Chastened
• Conscience-stricken
• Contrite
• Crook
• Crummy
• Dizzy
• Dreadful
• Faint
• Full of regret
• Giddy
• Green around the gills
• Grotty
• Guilt-ridden
• Guilty
• Ill
• Lousy
• Nauseated
• Nauseous
• Off colour
• Off
• Peaked
• Peakish
• Peaky
• Peely-wally
• Penitent
• Poorly
• Queasy
• Queer
• Regretful
• Remorseful
• Repentant
• Ropy
• Rotten
• Rough
• Seedy
• Self-reproachful
• Shamefaced
• Sick
• Sorry
• Terrible
• Unwell
• Wabbit
• Washed out
• Apologetic

4. awe-inspiring

• Amazing
• Awe-inspiring
• Awesome
• Dread
• Impressive
• Fearful