What is another word for awestricken?

Pronunciation: [ˈɔːstɹɪkən] (IPA)

Awestricken is defined as being filled with a sense of wonder or amazement, often in response to something impressive or powerful. When trying to find synonyms for this word, some options include amazed, astonished, gobsmacked, overwhelmed, stunned, and mesmerized. These words all convey a sense of being taken aback by something extraordinary, and can be used interchangeably with awestricken, depending on the context. Other possible synonyms for awestricken might include awed, dumbfounded, impressed, or dumbstruck. No matter which word is chosen, the idea remains the same: a sense of overwhelming awe or wonderment in response to something truly remarkable.

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Usage examples for Awestricken

She herself had seen nothing, not the shadow of a shadow, and nobody in the house but the governess was in the governess's plight; yet she accepted without directly impugning my sanity the truth as I gave it to her, and ended by showing me, on this ground, an awestricken tenderness, an expression of the sense of my more than questionable privilege, of which the very breath has remained with me as that of the sweetest of human charities.
"The Turn of the Screw"
Henry James
If it afforded her any satisfaction when that official was driven to the door by Colonel Forrester, and entered her kitchen, carrying his seal, and followed by an admiring and awestricken group of children, she did not display it by the faintest tremor of her grim countenance.
"Stories of the Foot-hills"
Margaret Collier Graham
Billy and Lathrop, however, were too much astonished by the sudden turn events had taken to follow the example of the savages and so stood gazing awestricken at the elephant while he gazed at them in apparent amazement at two boys having the temerity to face him in his native forest.
"The Boy Aviators in Africa"
Captain Wilbur Lawton

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