Synonyms for awe-inspiring
awe-in·spir·ing

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1. amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awingadjective

   inspiring awe or admiration or wonder

   "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent"

   Synonyms:
   awesome, dread(a), fearsome, frightening, terrible, frightful, amazing, horrific, dreaded, awed, fearful, nasty, abominable, unspeakable, horrendous, awful, atrocious, tremendous, astonishing, awing, dreadful, direful, dire, painful

   Antonyms:
   unimpressive

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1. List of paraphrases for "awe-inspiring":

   impressive

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1. Venice Film Festival:

   'Everest' documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind, their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.

2. Anna Pierce:

   As soon as you take off, you can see the path the glaciers took to carve out Niagara Falls, just seeing all that water rushing from one lake to the other is awe-inspiring.

3. Sara Wheeler:

   They represent a golden age in the history of photography, when a few men went to the unknown to bring back awe-inspiring pictures.

4. Astronaut Mike Fincke:

   There's a lot of things that you really need to do, one of which is just keep your focus, even though it's amazing out there, it's really truly breathtaking. The only thing between you and the rest of the universe, seeing the whole cosmos of creation, is the glass faceplate of your visor on your helmet, and it's just awe-inspiring.

5. Gene Spafford, 1992:

   Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.