Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb awe

1 sense of awe

Sense 1
awe -- (inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the undergraduates")
       => frighten, fright, scare, affright -- (cause fear in; "The stranger who hangs around the building frightens me"; "Ghosts could never affright her")

Antonyms of adj awed

2 senses of awed

Sense 1
awed, awful -- (inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence; "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads")

INDIRECT (VIA reverent) -> irreverent -- (showing lack of due respect or veneration; "irreverent scholars mocking sacred things"; "noisy irreverent tourists")

Sense 2
awed (vs. unawed), awestruck, awestricken -- (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")

unawed (vs. awed) -- (not awed)
        => aweless, awless -- (devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence)

Similarity of adj awed

2 senses of awed

Sense 1
awed, awful -- (inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence; "awed by the silence"; "awful worshippers with bowed heads")
       => reverent (vs. irreverent) -- (feeling or showing profound respect or veneration; "maintained a reverent silence")

Sense 2
awed (vs. unawed), awestruck, awestricken -- (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")
       => overawed -- (overcome by a feeling of awe)

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