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awestruck

awestruck adjective: filled or overcome with awe or wonder.

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...
    • They are awe-struck by America and posting about it. And no one loves this more than American audiences.2026 July 9, Sophie Haigney, “World Cup Tourists Are Giving Americans Exactly What We Crave”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    awestricken

awestruck meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

awestruck in Bengali

বিস্ময়, ভয়ে অভিভূত

awestruck in Malayalam

amazed, awed, wonderstruck
അത്ഭുതാദരസമന്വിതമായ, ഭയഭക്തിബഹുമാനം കലർന്ന, സവിസ്മയ, അത്ഭുതപരവശമായ, അത്ഭുതസ്തംബധമായ, പറയാൻ വാക്കുകൾ കിട്ടാതായ

Synonyms of awestruck

Forms of awestruck

comparativemore awestruck
superlativemost awestruck

Origin of awestruck

From awe + struck.

Questions about awestruck

What does awestruck mean?
Awestruck means filled or overcome with awe or wonder.
What is awestruck in Bengali?
Awestruck in Bengali is বিস্ময়, ভয়ে অভিভূত. See Awestruck meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is awestruck?
Awestruck is an adjective.

Words near awestruck in the dictionary

  1. awest
  2. awestricken
  3. awestrike
  4. awestrikes
  5. awestriking
  6. awestruck
  7. aweth
  8. Aweti
  9. aweto
  10. awetos
  11. awf

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: awestruck (page history and authors); awestruck (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); awestruck (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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