awe

awe is a 3-letter English word with 6 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Dread; great fear mingled with respect. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Dread; great fear mingled with respect.
2. noun. The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.
3. transitive verb. To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread.
4. noun. an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration

   "he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe"

5. noun. a feeling of profound respect for someone or something

   "the fear of God"

   "the Chinese reverence for the dead"

   Synonyms: fear, reverence, veneration

6. verb. inspire awe in

   "The famous professor awed the undergraduates"

Synonyms

fear, reverence, veneration

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in awe:

wae, wea

Common word forms

awed, awes, awest, awing, aweing, aweless

Words from these letters

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