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say it: awd
awed is an adjective meaning "inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence". It is pronounced /ˈɔd/ — awd. It carries 2 recorded senses.
having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread
“stood in awed silence before the shrine”
“in grim despair and awestruck wonder”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for awed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.