awe-inspiring

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Adjective

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awe-inspiring (comparative more awe-inspiring, superlative most awe-inspiring)

  1. Inspiring awe; awesome.
    The Taj Mahal is an awe-inspiring sight.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
      Across the far end of the cavern, with a grinding and crashing noise - a noise so dreadful and awe-inspiring that we all trembled, and Job actually sank to his knees - there flamed out an awful cloud or pillar of fire, like a rainbow many-coloured, and like the lightning bright.

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Verb

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awe-inspiring

  1. present participle and gerund of awe-inspire