formidable | ||
1. | [ adjective ] extremely impressive in strength or excellence | |
Examples: | "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" |
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Related terms: | impressive | |
2. | [ adjective ] inspiring fear | |
Synonyms: | redoubtable unnerving | |
Examples: | "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" |
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Related terms: | alarming | |
Similar spelling: |
formidably formidability |