awed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔːd/
• Rhymes: -ɔːd
• Homophone: odd (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Verb

awed

1. simple past and past participle of awe

Adjective

awed (comparative more awed, superlative most awed)

1. Filled with awe.
2. 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

Derived terms

• awedness
• unawed

 

Anagrams

• Dawe, Dewa, Wade, wade