awestruck

Etymology

From awe + struck.

awestruck means filled or overcome with awe or wonder. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 76 out of 100.

Why this word is great

AWESTRUCK — [Adjective] Filled or overcome with a feeling of profound reverence, dread, or wonder. From awe (from Old English *ege*, meaning "fear, dread, awe") + struck (past participle of strike, meaning "hit, smitten"). Unlike "amazed," which suggests surprise stripped of reverence, or "nonchalant," its studied antithesis in casual disregard, to be awestruck is to be spiritually concussed and intellectually disarmed. It is the vertigo at a canyon's abyss, the paralyzing hush beneath a cathedral's vault, and the primal stillness of a lone figure confronting an indifferent glacier—a momentary shattering of the self against the incomprehensibly vast, where dread and wonder become indistinguishable and the ego is left in exquisite smallness.

adj

Filled or overcome with awe or wonder.“Like so many others, I was awestruck by the first season, which captured a moment in time and successfully funnelled its rage outwards at a world in which women are indeed silenced, controlled and killed by men.”