1. Inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence
   "awed by the silence";
   - awful
    
2. Having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread
   "stood in awed silence before the shrine";
   - awestruck, awestricken

1. Inspire awe in
   "The famous professor awed the undergraduates"

Sounds like: oared

See also: overawed, reverent

Type of: affright, fright [archaic], frighten, scare

Antonym: unawed

Encyclopedia: Awed