absolutely awful

Frequency: 9.0180.0 per million words

A very strong intensifier, used with extreme adjectives like 'awful'.

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Examples (10)

  • The weather during our holiday was absolutely awful.
  • I felt absolutely awful for telling her the bad news.
  • That soup he made tasted absolutely awful.
  • The conditions in the prison were described as absolutely awful.
  • To be honest, his performance in the play was absolutely awful.
  • There's an absolutely awful smell coming from the bin.
  • She has an absolutely awful taste in music.
  • He told me an absolutely awful joke that nobody laughed at.
  • The traffic this morning was absolutely awful; I was an hour late.
  • What an absolutely awful thing to say to someone!