awe-inspiring

adj

causing or worthy of admiration or respect; amazing or magnificent

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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 or literary), jaw-dropping, gee-whizz (slang) a museum with an awe-inspiring display of jewellery
flat, boring, dull, tame, bland, tedious, prosaic, uninspiring, humdrum, insipid, unimpressive, vapid

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awe-inspiring

adj → Ehrfurcht gebietend

awe-inspiring [ˈɔːɪnˌspaɪərɪŋ] 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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