Awing (Adjective)
Meaning
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".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The pyrotechnics display ended with an awing finale that lit up the entire sky.
- Her intelligence and quick thinking were awing, especially for someone so young.
- The scientist's theory about black holes was met with awing reverence from the scientific community.
- As the lights went out, the kids sat in awing silence, listening to the darkness.
- Visitors couldn't help but feel awing wonder at the massive size of the prehistoric statues.