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overawed en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Impressed or convinced by someone to an unreasonable degree, sometimes with an implication of gullibility.
    • One of the most depressing things about you, the people, says Daniel Hannan, is the way you're so overawed by experts. - Best articles: Britain: Our naive faith in non-political experts,The Week, 14 July 2007, 622, 14.

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more overawed Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most overawed Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

unoverawed

overawed en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of overawe
    form of overawe