frightening, causing fear; difficult, discouraging, intimidating; awesome; powerful
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Formidable Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutExciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming.
formidable
\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. i swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when you see so many pages behind. --drydn.
Difficult to accomplish.
Extremely impressive in strength or excellence,Inspiring fear
*But Haifa first have to visit United’s formidable Old Trafford ground for the opening group game on September 18.(HA'ARETZ)
*I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.(J.MARITAIN)
*People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.
*A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.(MANDELA)
*But Haifa first have to visit United’s formidable Old Trafford ground for the opening group game on September 18.(HA'ARETZ)
*I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops, and it seems it will engulf everything. Wait a moment, another current will appear and bring the first one to naught.(J.MARITAIN)
*People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.
*A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.(MANDELA)
Adjective
1. 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"
(similar) impressive
2. 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"
(synonym) redoubtable, unnerving
(similar) alarming
Formidable Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Formidable is the soundtrack to the show performed at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France by American singer La Toya Jackson. Only 3,000 copies were created and it has become one of the most sought-after albums by La Toya's fans.
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Formidable Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries
fears; terrors; formidable; people
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) , by Roswell D. Hitchcock. About