Aah vs Awe - What's the difference?
aah | awe |
Indication of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.
Indication of joyful pleasure.
* 1834 — (Edgar Allan Poe),
Indication of sympathy.
Indication of mouth being opened wide.
To express understanding.
Expression of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.
Expression of joy and/or pleasure.
The exclamation aah.
To say or exclaim aah .
# To express amazement or surprise or enthusiasm, especially by the interjection aah .
# To express joy or pleasure, especially by the interjection aah .
A feeling of fear and reverence.
A feeling of amazement.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
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To inspire fear and reverence in.
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To control by inspiring dread.
As nouns the difference between aah and awe
is that aah is expression of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm while awe is a feeling of fear and reverence.As verbs the difference between aah and awe
is that aah is to say or exclaim aah while awe is to inspire fear and reverence in.As an interjection aah
is indication of amazement or surprise or enthusiasm.aah
English
Interjection
(en interjection)- Aah! That's amazing!
- Yet I remember—aah! how should I forget?
- Dentists would always instruct, say aah!
- Aah . Now I understand.
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Everyone who came by oohed and aahed over her new appearance.
Usage notes
* Usually the verb is intransitive. The object of feelings usually is indicated by the prepositions over or at; sometimes it occurs as a direct object, especially in passive constructions. * Very often the word is used together with some other verb derived from an interjection. The most common combination is to ooh and aah . Perhaps it should be regarded as a separate lexical item. * The word belongs to the informal style.Anagrams
* English three-letter words ----awe
English
Noun
(-)- For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.
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