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awe-struck

awe-struck is the alternative form of awestruck.

Meaning of awestruck

Adjective

awestruck (comparative more awestruck, superlative most awestruck)

  1. Filled or overcome with awe or wonder.
    • Like so many others, I was awestruck by the first season, which captured a moment in time and successfully funnelled its rage outwards at a world in which women are indeed silenced, controlled and killed by men.2018 June 16, Fiona Sturges, “Cattleprods! Severed tongues! Torture porn! Why I’ve stopped watching the Handmaid’s Tale”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media...
    Synonyms:
    awestricken

Forms of awe-struck

comparativemore awe-struck
superlativemost awe-struck

Questions about awe-struck

What is awe-struck the alternative form of?
Awe-struck is the alternative form of awestruck.

Words near awe-struck in the dictionary

  1. awe-inspired
  2. awe-inspires
  3. awe-inspiring
  4. awe-inspiringly
  5. awe-stricken
  6. awe-struck
  7. awearied
  8. aweary
  9. aweather
  10. awebo
  11. awebos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: awe-struck (page history and authors); awestruck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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