English-Spanish Dictionary

Spanish Translation of “awful”

awful (ˈɔːfəl Pronunciation for awful

Translations

adjective

  1. (= dreadful)
    1. [weather] horrible, espantoso
    2. [clothes, crime] horroroso, espantoso
    3. [smell, dilemma] terrible
     ⇒ what awful weather! ¡qué tiempo más horrible or espantoso! ⇒ we met and I thought he was awful le conocí y me cayó fatal ⇒ you are awful!(= wicked) ¡qué malo eres!, ¡qué mala idea tienes!

    to feel awful (= embarrassed, guilty) sentirse fatal (= ill) encontrarse or sentirse fatal ⇒ I felt awful about what had happened me sentía fatal por lo que había ocurrido

    I have an awful feeling something's going to happen tengo la terrible sospecha de que va a pasar algo

    how awful! ¡qué horror! ⇒ how awful for you! ¡qué mal rato habrás pasado!

    to look awful tener muy mal aspecto ⇒ you look awful, are you feeling all right? tienes muy mala cara or tienes muy mal aspecto, ¿te encuentras bien?

    for one awful moment I thought I'd broken it ¡fue horrible! por un momento pensé que se me había roto

    it smells awful huele fatal

    prices have gone up something awful (very informal) los precios han subido cosa mala (informal) ⇒ they beat him up something awful (very informal) le dieron una tremenda paliza

    what an awful thing to happen! ¡qué cosa tan horrible or terrible! ⇒ the awful thing is that he thought we were joking lo peor (del caso) es que él pensó que estábamos de broma ⇒ you said some pretty awful things hiciste algunos comentarios muy hirientes

    I learned the awful truth supe la amarga verdad

  2. (= bad, poor) ⇒ his English is awful habla inglés fatal
  3. (= awesome) imponente, tremendo
  4. (informal, as intensifier) ⇒ there were an awful lot of people había un montón de gente (informal) ⇒ I've got an awful lot of work to do tengo un montón de trabajo (informal) ⇒ it's an awful nuisance es una molestia terrible ⇒ he's an awful bore es terriblemente pesado ⇒ she's got an awful cheek! ¡tiene una cara increíble! (informal) ⇒ it seems an awful waste parece un desperdicio terrible

adverb

(especially US, informal)
  1.  ⇒ ten years is an awful long time diez años es un montón de tiempo (informal) ⇒ it's an awful long way to go está lejísimo ⇒ it's awful cold outside fuera hace un frío horroroso (informal)

'awful' in Other Languages

  • Arabic: شَنِيعPronunciation for شَنِيع
  • Brazilian Portuguese: horrívelPronunciation for horrível
  • Chinese: 糟糕的Pronunciation for 糟糕的
  • Croatian: strašanPronunciation for strašan strašna
  • Czech: hroznýPronunciation for hrozný
  • Danish: rædselsfuldPronunciation for rædselsfuld
  • Dutch: afschuwelijkPronunciation for afschuwelijk
  • European Spanish: espantosoPronunciation for espantoso espantosa
  • Finnish: kauheaPronunciation for kauhea
  • French: affreuxPronunciation for affreux affreuse
  • German: schrecklichPronunciation for schrecklich
  • Greek: φρικτόςPronunciation for φρικτός φρικτή
  • Italian: orribilePronunciation for orribile
  • Japanese: ひどいPronunciation for ひどい
  • Korean: 몹시 나쁜Pronunciation for 몹시 나쁜
  • Norwegian: skrekkeligPronunciation for skrekkelig
  • Polish: strasznyPronunciation for straszny straszna
  • Portuguese: horrívelPronunciation for horrível
  • Romanian: groaznic groaznică, groaznici, groaznice
  • Russian: ужасныйPronunciation for ужасный ужасная
  • Spanish: espantosoPronunciation for espantoso espantosa
  • Swedish: fruktansvärdPronunciation for fruktansvärd fruktansvärt
  • Thai: แย่มากPronunciation for แย่มาก
  • Turkish: berbatPronunciation for berbat
  • Ukrainian: жахливий
  • Vietnamese: kinh khủngPronunciation for kinh khủng

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