awe-inspiring

English

Adjective

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

1. Inspiring awe; awesome.

   The Taj Mahal is an awe-inspiring sight.

   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     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.

Related terms

• awe-inspire

Derived terms

• awe-inspiringly

Translations

Inspiring awe; awesome

• Afrikaans: ontsagwekkend
• Latin: tremendus, verendus

• Russian: изумительный (ru) (izumitelʹnyj)

Verb

awe-inspiring

1. present participle of awe-inspire