| 单词 | awestruck |
| 释义 | awestruck (once / 8788 pages) adj To be awestruck is to be full of complete wonder, amazement, or dread for something. Swimming with a humpback whale or being near a tornado would leave most people awestruck. When you're awestruck, you're amazed. Awestruck literally means to be struck with awe — a feeling of profound amazement. You can be awestruck by something surprising, wonderful, or even scary. Imagine the breathless feeling you’d get swimming next to a whale! That’s awestruck. This is a very powerful feeling that would never apply to everyday things. Being awestruck leaves you stunned. You can't quite believe what you're seeing or hearing. WORD FAMILYawestruck: awestricken+/awestricken: awestrickenly USAGE EXAMPLES“They’re pretty much as good as it gets,” says Platt, who seems awestruck to be in one of their shows. Los Angeles Times(Dec 01, 2016) Truman came away from the meeting convinced that Eisenhower was “awestruck by the long array of problems and decisions the President has to face.” Time(Nov 10, 2016) The women eyed her with a reverent, almost awestruck, expression. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns(2007) adj having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread in grim despair and awestruck wonder Syn|Ant awed, awestricken overawed overcome by a feeling of awe unawed not awed aweless, awlessdevoid of any feeling of awe or reverence |
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