awe-inspiring
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
awe-inspiring (comparative more awe-inspiring, superlative most awe-inspiring)
- 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.
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Inspiring awe; awesome
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awe-inspiring