awed
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔːd/
- Rhymes: -ɔːd
- Homophone: odd (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Adjective
awed (comparative more awed, superlative most awed)
- Filled with awe.
- Having or showing awe.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- Even now my heart faints before the recollection of it, as she stood and smiled at our awed faces, and I would give half my remaining time upon this earth to see her once like that again.
Synonyms
- (filled with awe): thunderstruck; awestruck, awestricken
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