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awe-inspiring

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Adj.1.awe-inspiring - 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"
awesome, awing, amazing, awful
impressive - making a strong or vivid impression; "an impressive ceremony"
awe-inspiring
adjective impressive, striking, wonderful, amazing, stunning (informal) magnificent, astonishing, intimidating, awesome, daunting, breathtaking, fearsome, wondrous (archaic), (literary) jaw-dropping << OPPOSITE unimpressive
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awe-inspiring [ˈɔːɪnspaɪərɪŋ], awesome [ˈɔːsəm] adj → imponente, pasmoso
awe-inspiring [ˈɔːɪnspaɪərɪŋ], awesome [ˈɔːsəm] adj → impressionnant(e)
awe-inspiring [ˈɔːɪnspaɪərɪŋ] awe adj → Ehrfurcht gebietend
awe-inspiring [ˈɔːɪnspaɪərɪŋ], awesome [ˈɔːsəm] adj → imponente


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      Grim, resolute, an awe-inspiring chap!
The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
The betrayed husband, who had figured till that time as a pitiful creature, an incidental and somewhat ludicrous obstacle to his happiness, had suddenly been summoned by her herself, elevated to an awe-inspiring pinnacle, and on the pinnacle that husband had shown himself, not malignant, not false, not ludicrous, but kind and straightforward and large.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
These three statues form a most awe-inspiring trinity, as they sit there in their solitude, and gaze out across the plain for ever.
King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
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