awing

1. 1.

   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”

   “Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent”

   Synonymsamazingawe-inspiringawesomeawful

   Similarimpressive

Other forms of awing

comparative

awinger·

superlative

awingest·

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.

Questions about awing

What does awing mean?

awing means "inspiring awe or admiration or wonder".

How many syllables are in awing?

awing has 2 syllables: a-wing. The stress falls on "a".

What is another word for awing?

Close synonyms include amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is awing a common word?

awing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.