as in amazed
filled with amazement or wonder
gave the nationally known golfer an awed look
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Recent Examples of awed
Robert Lang, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2025
Give me pot-banging, Lady Liberty ticker-tape or scanning the Western sky, not for witches or UFOs, but together, awed by the eclipse.
—Caroline Aiken Koster, New York Daily News, 1 Jan. 2025
The work of art is not a miraculously healing, autonomous object that finds its counterpoint in an awed and newly invigorated individual viewer.
—Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
As a lapsed Catholic, I was awed by the brilliance of this altarpiece.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
She was both awed by and in some ways unsurprised by that possibility.
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2025
Give me pot-banging, Lady Liberty ticker-tape or scanning the Western sky, not for witches or UFOs, but together, awed by the eclipse.
—Caroline Aiken Koster, New York Daily News, 1 Jan. 2025
The work of art is not a miraculously healing, autonomous object that finds its counterpoint in an awed and newly invigorated individual viewer.
—Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
As a lapsed Catholic, I was awed by the brilliance of this altarpiece.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for awed
Adjective
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Speaking to the media Sunday after his final round at the Genesis Invitational that Tiger annually hosts, Scheffler seemed amazed at what Woods has been able to accomplish after the level of injuries he's sustained over his career.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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Father stunned when stranger pays his restaurant bill A dad having breakfast with his kids was amazed when a stranger out of nowhere took care of his bill.—
Khloe Quill,
Fox News,
15 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Intelligence officials were appalled.—
Shane Harris,
The Atlantic,
3 Jan. 2025
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At the time, we were appalled to learn that some twenty thousand Syrians had died.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
30 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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One of the most memorable examples is Caravaggio’s painting from 1601, in the National Gallery in London, showing an astonished apostle wearing a scallop shell on his vest.—
Virginia Raguin,
The Conversation,
21 Jan. 2025
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Very quickly, Hughes and the Hughes Aircraft company, with characteristic enthusiasm, took over the entire project and left Kaiser on the sidelines more or less as an astonished spectator.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
25 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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At first glance, Eaton, 27, wasn’t surprised, as the previous owners had left things behind, including two other paintings, though those weren't as large nor as striking as this one.—
Jordan Greene,
People.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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However, considering that his chances of a fourth victory were ruled out after the wreck, the 44-year-old was surprised and questioned why NASCAR didn't waive the caution flags.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
17 Feb. 2025
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“Awed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/awed. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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