![]() ![]() At some point it came to mean 'breath-takingly bad so bad that it fills (a person) with awe and amazement'. For example, awful originally meant 'awe-inspiring, filling (someone) with deep awe', as in the awful majesty of the Creator. Often in the course of semantic change, a word shifts its meaning to the point that the modern meaning is radically different from the original usage. Semantic change in the context of words describes the gradual shift in the conventional meaning of words, as people use them in new types of contexts and these usages become normal. Linguists describe these relations and also try to characterize with as much precision as possible the meanings of words and other linguistic elements. ![]() These relations include homonymy, synonymy, antonymy, polysemy, hypernymy, and hyponymy. One area of study is the study of the semantic relations between different linguistic expressions, usually words. In Linguistics, Semantics (from the Greek semantikos, or 'significant meaning', derived from sema 'sign') is traditionally defined as the study of meaning. Semantic change | Metaphor | Metonymy | Neologisms.
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