Awe, n.
1. Reverence, veneration, reverential fear. 2. Dread, fearfulness, terror, fear. 3. Solemn exaltation, admiring solemnity, adoring wonder. Awe, v. a.
1. Inspire with awe, solemnize, make reverent, fill with revering dread. 2. Overawe, intimidate, frighten, affright, daunt, cow. See affright. Aweless, Awless, a.
1. Destitute of awe, irreverent, unrevering. 2. Inspiring no awe, undread, unsolemn, unvenerable, unimposing, unmajestic, unstately. Awe-struck, a
1. Awed, inspired with awe, solemnized, solemn, reverent, revering, filled with solemn exaltation. 2. Dismayed, horrified, appalled, terrified, frightened, awe-stricken, horror-struck, over-whelmed. Awful, a.
1. Dread, awe-inspiring, reverend, venerable, august, grand, stately, imposing, solemn, majestic. 2. Dreadful, fearful, horrible, horrid, horrifying, terrible, dire, direful, frightful, appalling, tremendous, overwhelming,
alarming, portentous. Awhile, ad. For a time, for some time, some time, for a while.
Awkward, a.
1. Unskilful, bungling, unhandy, maladroit, inapt, clumsy, without dexterity. 2. Unwieldy, lumbering, unmanageable, inconvenient, unfit. 3. Uncouth, unrefined, unpolished, uncourtly, rude, rough, clumsy, coarse, wooden, inelegant, ungainly,
untoward, ungraceful, stiff, constrained, uneasy, rustic, boorish, clownish, loutish, gawky, lubberly, slouching.
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