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.

   • 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.

Derived terms

• awe-inspiringly
• awe-inspiringness

Related terms

• awe-inspire

Translations

Inspiring awe; awesome

• Afrikaans: ontsagwekkend
• Latin: tremendus, verendus
• Russian: изумительный (ru) (izumitelʹnyj)

Verb

awe-inspiring

1. present participle and gerund of awe-inspire