dreadful, horrible, formidable
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Redoubtable Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutFormidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque.
redoubtable
\re*doubt"a*ble\ (-?*b'l), a. [f. redoutable, formerly also spelt redoubtable.] formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque. [written also redoutable.]
redoubtable
adj
1. 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" [syn: formidable, unnerving]
2. having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family" [syn: glorious, illustrious, respected]
Formidable.
Adjective
1. 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) formidable, unnerving
(similar) alarming
2. having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the Renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family"
(synonym) glorious, illustrious, respected
(similar) proud
Redoubtable Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
There have been a number of ships named HMS Redoubtable in the Royal Navy.
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