awestruck

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adjective

Filled or overcome with awe or wonder.

UncommonScrabble 18

Meanings

adjectiveawestruck (comparative more awestruck, superlative most awestruck)

comparative more awestruck · superlative most awestruck

  1. Filled or overcome with awe or wonder.

    They are awe-struck by America and posting about it. And no one loves this more than American audiences.

    2026 July 9, Sophie Haigney, “World Cup Tourists Are Giving Americans Exactly What We Crave”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    1 more example

    Like so many others, I was awestruck by the first season, which captured a moment in time and successfully funnelled its rage outwards at a world in which women are indeed silenced, controlled and killed by men.

    2018 June 16, Fiona Sturges, “Cattleprods! Severed tongues! Torture porn! Why I’ve stopped watching the Handmaid’s Tale”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2020

    Synonyms: awestricken

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveFilled or overcome with awe or wonder.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivehaving or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Bulgarian обхванат от благоговеен страх
  • обхванат от благоговеен страх (obhvanat ot blagogoveen strah)filled or overcome with awe
Esperanto admirega, mirigita
  • admiregafilled or overcome with awe
  • mirigitafilled or overcome with awe
Finnish ällistynyt, ällikällä lyöty
  • ällistynytfilled or overcome with awe
  • ällikällä lyötyfilled or overcome with awe
  • häikäistynytfilled or overcome with awe
French stupéfait
  • stupéfaitfilled or overcome with awe
German ehrfürchtig
  • ehrfürchtigfilled or overcome with awe
Polish oniemiały, pod wrażeniem
  • oniemiałyfilled or overcome with awe
  • pod wrażeniemfilled or overcome with awe
Portuguese deslumbrado
  • deslumbradofilled or overcome with awe
Romanian copleșit, cuprins de uimire
  • copleșitfilled or overcome with awe
  • cuprins de uimirefilled or overcome with awe
Spanish asombrado
  • asombradofilled or overcome with awe
Cite this entry
APA

awestruck. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awestruck

MLA

“awestruck.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awestruck. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “awestruck,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/awestruck.

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