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Princeton's WordNet

  1. amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awingadjective

    inspiring awe or admiration or wonder

    "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"

Wiktionary

  1. awe-inspiringadjective

    Inspiring awe; awesome.

    The Taj Mahal is often considered to be an awe-inspiring sight.

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  1. awe-inspiring

    Awe-inspiring is an adjective used to describe something that generates an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, or fear due to its grandeur, beauty, power, or supremacy. It is typically used to refer to something that is extremely impressive or intimidating.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of awe-inspiring in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of awe-inspiring in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of awe-inspiring in a Sentence

  1. Venice Film Festival:

    'Everest' documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind, their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.

  2. Anna Pierce:

    As soon as you take off, you can see the path the glaciers took to carve out Niagara Falls, just seeing all that water rushing from one lake to the other is awe-inspiring.

  3. Angela Moore:

    I see a lot of hotels in my work, lots of hotels think they can simply offer a nice room with a pretty view, but what Fairmont and Raffles are doing here is more than just glitz. Each property is awe-inspiring and curated to each guest individually.

  4. Gene Spafford, 1992:

    Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

  5. Sara Wheeler:

    They represent a golden age in the history of photography, when a few men went to the unknown to bring back awe-inspiring pictures.


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