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Definition: Awestruck |
AwestruckAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "awestruck" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1836. (references) |
Synonyms: AwestruckSynonyms: awed (adj), awestricken (adj), in awe of (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unawed (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fear | Aghast; awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic-stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken, horror-struck; frightened to death, white as a sheet; pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes; breathless, in hysterics. |
Wonder | Adjective: surprised; Verb: aghast, all agog, breathless, agape; open-mouthed; awestruck, thunderstruck, moonstruck, planet-struck; spellbound; lost in amazement, lost in wonder, lost in astonishment; struck all of a heap, unable to believe one's senses, like a duck ion thunder. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Awestruck |
| English words defined with "awestruck": awed, awestricken ♦ in awe of. (references) |
| "Awestruck" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 86.67% of the time. "Awestruck" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 86.67% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 10% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 3.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
awestruck | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "awestruck"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | von Ehrfurcht ergriffen (awestricken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | awestruckay aterrado (aghast). (various references) cuprins de veneraţie, cuprins de teamã, copleşit (overcome, overwhelmed, prostrate wit grief). (various references) atemorizado (afraid). (various references) korkmuş (afraid, frightened, ill with fear, scared, terrified, windy), dehşete kapılmış (horrified, horror-stricken, horror-struck, terrified, terror stricken, terror-haunted, terror-struck). (various references) kinh sợ; khiếp sợ; kinh hoà ng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Awestruck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ausdruck, awestuck. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "awestruck" (pronounced Ä"stru'k) |
| 5 | -s t r u' k | dumbstruck, moonstruck, starstruck, thunderstruck. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-k-r-s-t-u-w" | |
-2 letters: curates, rackets, restack, retacks, stacker, tackers, tuckers, waesuck. | |
-3 letters: acuter, acutes, carets, cartes, casket, caster, caters, causer, cesura, crakes, crates, creaks, cruets, cruset, cuesta, curate, curets, eructs, krauts, kurtas, racket, rawest, reacts, recast, rectus, recuts, retack, sacker, saucer, screak, skater, strake, streak, struck, sucker, tacker, takers, tawers, traces, tracks, truces, trucks, tucker. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-k-r-s-t-u-w" | |
+1 letter: waterbucks. | |
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