Awful and Good

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Awful

Awful adjective - Offensive or even (of persons) malicious.
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Good is an antonym for awful in terrible topic.
Nearby Word: awfully

Good

Good adjective - Having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified.
Usage example: good news from the hospital
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Awful is an antonym for good in topics: excellent, bad.
Nearby Words: goodness, goodly, goody
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  • Through His Stomach While the dinner can be good or awful depending on how well the player does at a mini-game, it still goes nowhere.
    Source: Through His Stomach
  • Film / Testament Bittersweet Ending / Downer Ending: Most of the town, including two of Carol's children are dead, and she and her son are both dying from radiation poisoning, but she tells him they need to remember it all, "the good and the awful", for the sake of whoever might survive.
    Source: Film / Testament
  • Circles: On Paulie's deathbed, just before he passed away, Marty regarded Paulie as too good for this world, saying that "There are so many awful people in the world and few good people."
    Source: Too Good for This Sinful Earth
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