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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. 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.

  2. Tammy Duckworth:

    To all those across America who have come forward to share their stories over the past few months: thank you. Your courage and strength in driving this long-overdue national conversation is awe-inspiring, as national leaders, we must hold ourselves to a higher standard – and we must lead by example to ensure every person is treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.

  3. Gene Spafford, 1992:

    Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

  4. Terry Mattson:

    The sight of extreme athletes careering down an ice track outside Saint Paul's iconic cathedral is an awe-inspiring spectacle -- and one great big party.

  5. Lincoln Barnwell:

    The Gloucester was our fourth dive season looking for The Gloucester, we were starting to believe that we were not going to find her, we'd dived so much and just found sand. On my descent to the seabed the first thing I spotted were large cannons laying on white sand, it was awe-inspiring and really beautiful. We were the only people in the world at that moment in time who knew where the wreck lay.


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