awe-full
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.79 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of awful (“full of awe; awe-inspiring”) used to distinguish from other senses..
Example Sentences
- "For some moments they stand simply dumb, every one of them, with sheer wonder and amazement. It is probably the weirdest, the most actually awe-full place on earth."
- "There is terror here on Tandy’s equator, terror and sublimity. The most awe-full place in the universe. Where vacuum and atmosphere kiss: and the kiss is a kiss of death!"
- "We did find a matching dim, voices-held-below-a-whisper awe-full hush in its natural silence: birds held their song in the birdfooted branches; acorns refused to drop through the squirrelless shadows."
- "Comparatively few dwell where he dwelt. It is an “awe-full” place. Isaiah expressed this vividly in Isaiah 33:14: / Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?"
- "O God, that mercy, whose majestic brow / Should be unwrinkled, and that awe-full justice, / Which looketh through a veil of sufferance / Upon the frailty of the multitude, / Should with the clamours of outrageous wrongs / Be stirred and wakened thus to punishment!"
Inflected Forms
more awe-full (comparative)
most awe-full (superlative)