AWED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does awed mean? 

• AWED (adjective)
  The adjective AWED has 2 senses:

1. inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence

2. having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread

  Familiarity information: AWED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AWED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence

Synonyms:

awed; awful

Context example:

awful worshippers with bowed heads

Similar:

reverent (feeling or showing profound respect or veneration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread

Synonyms:

awed; awestricken; awestruck

Context example:

in grim despair and awestruck wonder

Similar:

overawed (overcome by a feeling of awe)

Antonym:

unawed (not awed)

 Context examples 

Earnestness is ever deeply solemn: first, as I listened to that prayer, I wondered at his; then, when it continued and rose, I was touched by it, and at last awed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They had never witnessed such intensity of ferocity, and they were awed by it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Maud was looking on, her face awed and frightened.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They were awed, so still and large he stood, and a moment’s pause fell, till the boldest one leaped straight for him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was no wonder that the coastguard was surprised, or even awed, for not often can such a sight have been seen.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She was disheartened by Lady Bertram's silence, awed by Sir Thomas's grave looks, and quite overcome by Mrs. Norris's admonitions.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In spite of having been at St. James's, Sir William was so completely awed by the grandeur surrounding him, that he had but just courage enough to make a very low bow, and take his seat without saying a word; and his daughter, frightened almost out of her senses, sat on the edge of her chair, not knowing which way to look.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A low growl greeted such approach; if any one had the hardihood to come nearer, the lips lifted, the naked fangs appeared, and the growl became a snarl—a snarl so terrible and malignant that it awed the stoutest of them, as it likewise awed the farmers' dogs that knew ordinary dog-snarling, but had never seen wolf-snarling before.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

White Fang was awed.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He controlled himself with an effort, but not before the wolfish expression of his face had awed and perturbed them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)