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formidable

adjective

1 formidable

Extremely impressive in strength or excellence.

Roget 704: difficult, not easy, hard, tough; troublesome, toilsome, irksome; operose, laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable; sooner said than done; ... show more

2 formidable

Inspiring fear:
— The formidable prospect of major surgery.

synonyms: redoubtable, unnerving.

Roget 860: fearing etc. v.; frightened etc. v.; in fear, in a fright etc. n.; haunted with the fear of etc. n.; afeard.    ... show more


Moby thesaurus: Herculean, abstruse, alarming, appalling, arduous, astonishing, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, brutal, burdensome, challenging, complex, conspicuous, critical, daunting, delicate, demanding, difficile ... show more.

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