About The Word Formidable
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Formidable
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What's The Definition Of Formidable?
[adj] inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high gray wall"
[adj] extremely impressive in strength or excellence; "a formidable opponent"; "the challenge was formidable"; "had a formidable array of compositions to his credit"; "the formidable army of brains at the Prime Minister's disposal" Synonyms | Synonyms for Formidable: alarming | impressive | redoubtable | unnerving Related Terms | Find terms related to Formidable: abstruse | alarming | appalling | arduous | astonishing | astounding | awe-inspiring | awesome | awful | brutal | burdensome | challenging | complex | conspicuous | critical | daunting | delicate | demanding | difficile | difficult | dire | direful | dread | dreaded | dreadful | earnest | effortful | egregious | exacting | exceptional | extraordinary | fabulous | fantastic | fatal | fateful | fell | freaky | frightening | frightful | ghastly | ghoulish | grave | grim | grisly | gruesome | hairy | hard | hard-earned | hard-fought | heavy | Herculean | hideous | horrendous | horrible | horrid | horrific | horrifying | imposing | impressive | incredible | indomitable | intimidating | intricate | jawbreaking | knotted | knotty | labored | laborious | macabre | marked | marvelous | mean | menacing | mighty | mind-blowing | mind-boggling | morbid | no picnic | not easy | notable | noteworthy | noticeable | of mark | onerous | operose | outstanding | overwhelming | petrifying | portentous | powerful | prodigious | redoubtable | remarkable | rigorous | rough | rude | rugged | schrecklich | serious | set with thorns | severe | shocking | signal | sober | solemn | spiny | staggering | steep | strenuous | striking | superior | terrible | terrific | terrifying | thorny | ticklish | toilsome | tough | tremendous | tricky | unbelievable | uncommon | uphill | weighty | wicked | wonderful See Also | Formidable In Webster's Dictionary \For"mi*da*ble\, a. [L. formidabilis, fr. formidare
to fear, dread: cf. F. formidable.]
Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to
excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or
undertaking; alarming.
They seemed to fear the formodable sight. --Dryden.
I swell my preface into a volume, and make it
formidable, when you see so many pages behind. --Drydn.
Syn: Dreadful; fearful; terrible; frightful; shocking;
horrible; terrific; tremendous.
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