Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: awestruck
IPA transcription: ['ɑstɹ,ʌk]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: awed, awestruck, awestricken
    Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
  • Sylvie asked in an awestruck whisper.
  • Thus, at least, the priests explained its disappearance to the barefooted multitude that streamed in, awestruck, to gaze at the hole in the side of the ugly box of bricks before the great altar.