adj
Meaning 1
Filled or overcome with awe or wonder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: awestricken
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
awestruck
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adjective
Meaning 2
having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- stood in awed silence before the shrine
- in grim despair and awestruck wonder
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: awed, awestricken
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From awe + struck.
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: обхванат от благоговеен страх (obhvanat ot blagogoveen strah) — filled or overcome with awe
- Esperanto: admirega — filled or overcome with awe
- Finnish: ällistynyt — filled or overcome with awe
- Finnish: ällikällä lyöty — filled or overcome with awe
- Finnish: häikäistynyt — filled or overcome with awe
- French: stupéfait — filled or overcome with awe
- German: ehrfürchtig — filled or overcome with awe
- Polish: oniemiały — filled or overcome with awe
- Polish: pod wrażeniem — filled or overcome with awe
- Portuguese: deslumbrado — filled or overcome with awe
- Romanian: copleșit — filled or overcome with awe
- Romanian: cuprins de uimire — filled or overcome with awe
- Spanish: asombrado — filled or overcome with awe