overawed
adj1
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.
- Derived terms
- unoverawed