"awful" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

awful adjetivo

awful + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 128
awful lot • awful thing • awful truth • awful moment • awful time • awful place • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 27
(2) thing, fear, dread, horror
Kolokacji: 4
(5) day, chance, risk
Kolokacji: 3
(10) mess, sight, carnage
Kolokacji: 3
(15) dream, nightmare
Kolokacji: 2
(16) mistake, crime, spectacle
Kolokacji: 3
(18) scream, joke, pun, fool, irony
Kolokacji: 5
(19) taste, fascination, loneliness
Kolokacji: 3
1. awful tragedy = okropna tragedia awful tragedy
2. awful accident = straszny wypadek awful accident
3. awful shame = okropny wstyd awful shame
  • Well that's an awful shame that we're not involved in that.
  • It was such a shame, such an awful shame.
  • It wasn't defiance Johnny heard in her voice but a weird and awful shame.
  • The thought that he individually could do something to retrieve the awful shame of his sister's treachery spurred him to activity.
  • Why, such things would not only break their parents' hearts but bring awful shame and reproach to their family.
  • Good Lord in heaven, Kitty, it's an awful shame to take a pretty face and make it look like a clown.
  • Isn't it an awful shame, to turn you off merely because you didn't pass the exam.
  • It seems an awful shame not to make some use of it, even if it's only once in a while.
  • "It's an awful shame that you and I got together right before you have to leave."
  • "And it seemed an awful shame to vex the old boy."
4. awful trouble = okropne kłopoty awful trouble
5. awful pity = okropna litość awful pity
(22) hurry, disease
Kolokacji: 2
(23) weather, storm
Kolokacji: 2
(24) cold, heat, coldness
Kolokacji: 3
(25) possibility, choice
Kolokacji: 2
(26) management, name
Kolokacji: 2
(27) oath, curse
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + awful
Kolokacji: 5
look awful • feel awful • sound awful • smell awful • taste awful
adverbio + awful
Kolokacji: 10
most awful • truly awful • pretty awful • absolutely awful • perfectly awful • ...
awful + preposición
Kolokacji: 5
awful in • awful for • awful at • awful to • awful about

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