AWED

• (adj.) having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread

  "stood in awed silence before the shrine", "in grim despair and awestruck wonder"

  synonyms : awestricken , awestruck

• (adj.) inspired by a feeling of fearful wonderment or reverence

  "awed by the silence", "awful worshippers with bowed heads"

  synonyms : awful

  The mosque was full of awful worshipers with bowed heads. -added by naila_inlas

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