overawed

(adjective, verb)

adjective

1. overcome by a feeling of awe

Similar word(s): awed, awestricken, awestruck

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of overawe

- 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.