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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. inspiring awe or admiration or wonder;
- Example: "New York is an amazing city"
- Example: "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"
- Example: "the awesome complexity of the universe"
- Example: "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville
- Example: "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"
[syn: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

awe-inspiring adj 1: inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent" [syn: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing]