Definition of Awestricken

1. Adjective. Having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread. "In grim despair and awestruck wonder"

Exact synonyms: Awed, Awestruck
Similar to: Overawed
Antonyms: Unawed

Definition of Awestricken

1. a. Awe- struck.

Definition of Awestricken

1. Adjective. Filled with awe. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Awestricken

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Awestricken

aweless
awelessness
awent
awes
awesome
awesome-sauce
awesome sauce
awesomely
awesomeness
awesomenesses
awesomenessness
awesomer
awesomesauce
awesomest
awesometastic
awestricken (current term)
awestruck
aweto
awetos
awful
awfulest
awfull
awfuller
awfullest
awfully
awfulness
awfulnesses
awhape
awhaped
awhapes

Literary usage of Awestricken

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Marshall Everett (1904)
"TERRIBLE REALITY COMES TO awestricken CROWD. It was only fifteen minutes after the first tongue of flame shot out from behind the scenes that a lull came in ..."

2. The Republic of Plato: An Ideal Commonwealth by Plato (1901)
"They were puzzled and awestricken by the Egyptian monuments, of which the forms, as Plato says, not in a figure, but literally, were 10000 years old (" Laws ..."

3. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"None of which things did any real honour to Hephaestion, but they served to demonstrate to an awestricken world what a tremendous thing the sorrow of ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"He went away a little awestricken ; yet he was full of hope. And it was, I think, the same day that Lucy also sought the stranger with her story. ..."

5. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"I never go to either gallery but I am awestricken by the apparition of a shovel hat and apron. Vagabond as I am, it makes me uncomfortable ; but 1 am ph ..."

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