an awful lot

idiom

informal

1

: a large amount

They lost an awful lot of money.

She does an awful lot of talking.

2

: very much

I like him an awful lot.

Examples of an awful lot in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Maybe the chefs had the Tristen vs. Massimo philosophical debate in their heads, because their dishes feature an awful lot of mythologizing for better and for worse. —Caroline Framke, Vulture, 16 May 2025

Come Season 2, Colter and Russell were confronted by a government spook who knew an awful lot about Dad. —Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 4 May 2025

Truth be told, there’s an awful lot that’s great about today’s game - players have never been more talented, and the greatest among them would excel in any era. —Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025

And The Brutalist gets an awful lot wrong…Brady Corbet riled the architecture world by playing fast and loose with his interpretation of brutalism, the Bauhaus, postwar immigration and the basic process of architecture itself. —Matt Shaw, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025

Rhymes for an awful lot

• aeronaut
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• afterthought
• apricot
• argonaut
• astronaut
• camelot
• coffeepot
• concordat
• cosmonaut
• entrepot
• flowerpot