awing

(verb) inspire awe in. Synonyms: awe. Example: "The famous professor awed the undergraduates."

(adj) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder. Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful. Examples: "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."