Synonyms of awful

1 Syllable

bad, weird, lou, dire, dread, tough, gross

2 Syllables

low-life, piller, highly, heinous, heeler, nagging, creepier, scuzzy, dreadful, stinking, raunchy, mondo, darned, creepy, tragic, fiercest, lousy, fiercer, woeful, shocking, badder, grabber, flagrant, painful, ghastlier, ugliest, uglier, nastier, frightful, grody, smarting, ghastly, whaler, dreader, grisly, sickie, yucky, weirder, weirdest, baddest, fearful, cruddy, lousier, grungy, hideous, nasty, yecchy, nastiest, ugly, skanky

3 Syllables

direful, gruesome, malicious, unpleasant, atrocious, revolting, synthetic, marvelous, repellent, horrific, horrifying, lowlife, curiously, harrowing, terrifying, nightmarish, obnoxious, horrible, horrendous, disgusting, depressing, alarming, terrible, terrific, appalling, traumatic, sleazeball, hateful, hateable, tremendous, ghostlike, distressing, bad-looking, godawful, unsightly

4 Syllables

detestable, lamentable, deplorable, awesome, remarkably, repulsive, unspeakable, formidable, offensive, unusually, despicable, hard-featured, unbeautiful, uninviting

5 Syllables

undescribable, abominable, terrifically, inexpressible, indefinable, unprepossessing, unutterable

6 Syllables

incommunicable