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AWED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence
Example:
awful worshippers with bowed heads
Synonyms:
awed; awful
Classified under:
Similar:
reverent (feeling or showing profound respect or veneration)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread
Example:
in grim despair and awestruck wonder
Synonyms:
awed; awestricken; awestruck
Classified under:
Similar:
overawed (overcome by a feeling of awe)
Antonym:
unawed (not awed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb awe
Context examples:
They were awed by what they had already seen of Wolf Larsen’s character, while the tale of woe they speedily heard in the forecastle took the last bit of rebellion out of them.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Mrs. Phillips was quite awed by such an excess of good breeding; but her contemplation of one stranger was soon put to an end by exclamations and inquiries about the other; of whom, however, she could only tell her nieces what they already knew, that Mr. Denny had brought him from London, and that he was to have a lieutenant's commission in the —shire.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He was appalled by his own grossness, awed by her clear innocence, and he gazed again at her across the gulf.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Before I could answer her eyes fastened with an awed expression on her little finger.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
An awed hush fell upon the bystanders.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise, and when he looked around him now for the first time and saw the height and splendor of the hall and the great rooms opening out from it into other rooms his grief began to be mixed with an awed pride.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
