Main entry: awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing, amazing
Definition: inspiring awe or admiration or wonder
Usage: 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
Main entry: amazing, astonishing
Definition: surprising greatly
Usage: she does an amazing amount of work; the dog was capable of astonishing tricks