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Definition: Awe-inspiring |
Awe-inspiringAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "awe-inspiring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: Awe-inspiringSynonyms: amazing (adj), awesome (adj), awful (adj), awing (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fear | Inspiring fear; Verb: alarming; formidable, redoubtable; perilous; (danger); portentous; fearful; dread, dreadful; fell; dire, direful; shocking; terrible, terrific; tremendous; horrid, horrible, horrific; ghastly; awful, awe-inspiring; revolting; (painful); Gorgonian. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Awe-inspiring |
| English words defined with "awe-inspiring": amazing, awesome, awful, awing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "awe-inspiring": Awful ♦ Comet ♦ Vanity. (references) |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | For with primacy in power is also joined an awe-inspiring accountability to the future. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass. They say that hens do cackle loudest when There's nothing vital in the eggs they've laid; And there are hens, professing to have made A study of mankind, who say that men Whose business 'tis to drive the tongue or pen Make the most clamorous fanfaronade O'er their most worthless work; and I'm afraid They're not entirely different from the hen. Lo! the drum-major in his coat of gold, His blazing breeches and high-towering cap -- Imperiously pompous, grandly bold, Grim, resolute, an awe-inspiring chap! Who'd think this gorgeous creature's only virtue Is that in battle he will never hurt you? Hannibal Hunsiker |
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| "Awe-inspiring" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.48% of the time. "Awe-inspiring" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 90.48% | 38 | 55,818 |
| Noun (singular) | 9.52% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 42 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "awe-inspiring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 赫 . (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | tiszteletet keltő (awful), megkapó (gripping, impressive, picturesque), megindítóan fenséges, lenyűgöző (compelling, enthralling, grandiose, impressive), döbbenetes (awesome), csodálatot keltő, bámulatot keltő, áhítatot keltő (awful). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 凛然たる (commanding), 凛々しい (biting, brave, chivalrous, dignified, gallant, imposing, manly, severe), 凛凛しい (biting, brave, chivalrous, dignified, gallant, imposing, manly, severe). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | りりしい (biting, brave, chivalrous, dignified, gallant, imposing, manly, severe), り"ぜ"たる (commanding). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 두 워하 무시킴. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | awe-inspiringay внушащий благоговение. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-i-i-n-n-p-r-s-w" | |
-3 letters: answering, arginines, inspiring, spraining. | |
-4 letters: aginners, arginine, aspiring, earnings, engrains, grannies, ingrains, insignia, pairings, panniers, periwigs, praising, prawning, repining, resawing, resining, ripening, sinewing, sirenian, sneaping, spawning, speaning, spearing, speiring, spiering, swearing, swingier, warnings, wingspan. | |
-5 letters: aginner, airings, airwise, arising, asinine, aspirin, awnings, earings, earning, earwigs, engrain, enwraps, erasing, gainers, gawpers, ginners, ginnier, gnawers. | |
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