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Princeton's WordNet

  1. amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awingadjective

    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"

Wiktionary

  1. awe-inspiringadjective

    Inspiring awe; awesome.

    The Taj Mahal is often considered to be an awe-inspiring sight.

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  1. awe-inspiring

    Awe-inspiring is an adjective used to describe something that generates an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, or fear due to its grandeur, beauty, power, or supremacy. It is typically used to refer to something that is extremely impressive or intimidating.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of awe-inspiring in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of awe-inspiring in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of awe-inspiring in a Sentence

  1. Anna Pierce:

    As soon as you take off, you can see the path the glaciers took to carve out Niagara Falls, just seeing all that water rushing from one lake to the other is awe-inspiring.

  2. Astronaut Mike Fincke:

    There's a lot of things that you really need to do, one of which is just keep your focus, even though it's amazing out there, it's really truly breathtaking. The only thing between you and the rest of the universe, seeing the whole cosmos of creation, is the glass faceplate of your visor on your helmet, and it's just awe-inspiring.

  3. Natalie Morales:

    I, too, was inspired to run and raise thousands for their cause thanks to your support, so many extraordinary people touched our lives, trusting us with their awe inspiring journeys.

  4. Venice Film Festival:

    'Everest' documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind, their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.

  5. Laurie Leshin:

    We have enormous opportunities ahead to leverage JPL's global leadership in robotic space exploration to answer awe-inspiring scientific questions and improve life here on Earth, i look forward to my work with Caltech and NASA to ensure that JPL continues to drive innovation across the global space ecosystem.


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