Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
inspiring awe; awesome. v
(present participle of awe-inspire English)
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: amazing, awesome, awful, awing]
Usage examples of "awe-inspiring".
I bade farewell to the Common with its Cogswell fountain, and the Garden with its last awe-inspiring monument.
More spectacular than the Alaskan fjords, more awe-inspiring than anything I had ever perceived.
The magical touches, supplied mostly by Gromph, Matron Baenre's elderboy and the archmage of Menzoberranzan, were no less spectacular, right down to the predominant purple and blue faerie fire hues highlighting just the right areas of the mounds for the most awe-inspiring effect.
On the rectangle of the grid appeared an assembly as awe-inspiring as the most pagan heart could wish.
The Hatching Ground was awe-inspiring, with the great vaulted roof, the steep ranks of seats where guests could watch Impression and the raised stone couch where the queen stayed, guarding her clutch and viewing the Hatching.
But such speculations were useless at the moment, so he concentrated on the truly awe-inspiring panorama that spread below him as Tiroth circled slowly oven an incredible sweep of meadow, broader and deeper than any expanse Toric had seen before.
Yes, Borgia has been here, a torch in one hand, a sword in the other, and within twenty paces, at the foot of this rock, perhaps two guards kept watch on land and sea, while their master descended, as I am about to descend, dispelling the darkness before his awe-inspiring progress.
Forbidden by law to render human beings, Moslems rendered flowers, arabesques, labyrinthian curlicues and other such designs with bold dyes and awe-inspiring exactitude.
But Kate could not have wrought such perfection of the surface with her powers, such a levelness and clarity, such an awe-inspiring effect.
Awe-inspiring in their chasubles of Anglo-Nubian fur, in their tiaras of gilded horns, Patriarchs and Archimandrites, Presbyters and Postulants stand in two groups at the head of the altar steps, chanting anti-phonally in a high treble to the music of bone recorders and a battery of xylophones.
He was a sombre and awe-inspiring personage, before whom trembled the singing boys in albs and long coats, the precentors, the brothers of Saint-Augustin, the clerk, who officiated in the morning services at Notre-Dame, as he stalked slowly along beneath the lofty arches of the choir, majestic, pensive, with arms folded and head so bowed upon his bosom that no part of his face was to be seen but his bald and ample forehead.
It's awe-inspiring to see a white spider of the solar corona spreading out from the sun into a black sky.