{
    "term": "awful",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "very bad or unpleasant",
            "labels": "(informal)especially British English",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "That's an awful colour."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘They didn't even offer to pay.’ ‘Oh that's awful.’"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I feel awful about forgetting her birthday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**to look/feel awful** *(= to look/feel ill)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's an awful smell in here."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**The awful thing** is, it was my fault."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It **sounds awful** to say it, but the war was exciting."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The weather conditions were just awful."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's awful, isn't it?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The weather last summer was awful."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The fish tasted awful."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a truly awful book"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I woke from the most awful nightmare."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Weather"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
                "adverb": ["just", "quite", "really"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "that shocks people very much",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the awful horrors of war"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was only later that we learned the awful truth."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "terrible"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "used to emphasize something, especially that there is a large amount or too much of something",
            "labels": "(informal)(British English)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's going to cost **an awful lot of** money."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's not an awful lot of room."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I feel an awful lot better than I did yesterday."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I had an awful job persuading him to come *(= it was very difficult)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The whole thing has been an awful nuisance."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's the most awful snob."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɔːfl/",
                "audio": "aw/awful/awful__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɔːfl/",
                "audio": "aw/awful/awful__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English (see awe, -ful)."
}