awed
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Synonyms for awed
Synonyms
amazed, astonished, astounded, awestruck (also awestricken), dumbfounded (also dumfounded), flabbergasted, marveling (or marvelling), openmouthed, wondering
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The film awed critics, and McKenzie’s heart-stopping performance heralded the arrival of a star. — Lauren Mechling, Vogue, "Rising Star Alert! Meet New Zealand’s Thomasin McKenzie," 7 Dec. 2018 Translation: Be prepared to be awed and overwhelmed. — Jenna Scatena, Condé Nast Traveler, "15 Best Things to Do in Seattle," 16 May 2018 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. — Dana Snitzky, Longreads, "Hemingway’s Last Girl," 12 July 2018 Its tone was both awed and suspicious, with constant references to a hot, possibly gullible, market in contemporary art. — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, "Jean-Michel Basquiat Is Still an Enigma," 24 June 2018 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. — Charles Finch, USA TODAY, "These 4 new mysteries are guaranteed to heat up your summer," 13 June 2018 The audience sat in awed silence for a full minute before thundering its approval. — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, "Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the CSO in an eloquent Mahler Ninth Symphony," 18 May 2018 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. — Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic, "The Novel That Asks, ‘What Went Wrong With Mankind?’," 11 May 2018 Like a perfectly sharp chef’s knife, the Hugo 2 leaves me awed by its precision but also bruised by its merciless sharpness. — Vlad Savov, The Verge, "The Chord Hugo 2 is the worst kind of audiophile equipment," 24 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'awed.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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