awe-inspiring
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ɪnˌspaɪər adjective
causing awe; spectacular; magnificent: an awe-inspiring cathedral; an awe-inspiring sunset.
Origin:
1805–15
1805–15
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| awe-inspiring | |
| —adj | |
| causing or worthy of admiration or respect; amazing or magnificent | |
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Awe-inspiring
is always a great word to know.
So is lollapalooza. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
Select from five different magnificent waterfall or waterway garden settings providing awe-inspiring backgrounds.
Foreign influence is either wholesale corrupting or it is awe-inspiring.
We took a different road north, and from there the destruction was awe-inspiring.
It is, in the true sense of the word, awe-inspiring.
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