Definition of awed
: showing awe
- awed respect
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Examples of awed in a Sentence
gave the nationally known golfer an awed look
Recent Examples of awed from the Web
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In keeping with this tenor of awed hero-worship, Hemingway’s repeated patterns of punishing women whose attentions wander, even for legitimate reasons, is rarely recounted.
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Its tone was both awed and suspicious, with constant references to a hot, possibly gullible, market in contemporary art.
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This is the most reliable pairing in crime fiction, the eccentric genius and the awed bystander to it — Holmes and Watson, Salander and Blomkvist, Poirot and Hastings — and the real Horowitz, lurking backstage, plays it perfectly.
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The audience sat in awed silence for a full minute before thundering its approval.
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Nicholas Hoel is the heir to a family art project—several generations committed to photographing, once a month, the growth of a chestnut tree—that has instilled in him an awed appreciation of human transience.
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Like a perfectly sharp chef’s knife, the Hugo 2 leaves me awed by its precision but also bruised by its merciless sharpness.
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Yet the last major biography of the man — A. Scott Berg’s 2013 Wilson— emphasized his complexity, taking a somewhat awed measure of his unlikely rise and failed idealism in seeking global peace after World War I by championing the League of Nations.
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Parental panic attack: From quips about his awed commentary filming his kids' soccer game to being irritated by their unruly friends on a bad play date, Sandler displayed the love and annoyance that come with parenting.
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First Known Use of awed
1592
awed Synonyms
Synonyms
amazed, astonished, astounded, awestruck (also awestricken), dumbfounded (also dumfounded), flabbergasted, marveling (or marvelling), openmouthed, wondering;
Near Antonyms
disinterested, incurious, indifferent, unconcerned, uninterested;
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