formidable

Definition of formidable in English English dictionary: difficult to defeat or overcome; causing fear, dread, awe or admiration as a result of size, strength, or some other impressive quality; commanding respect; difficult to accomplish; {a} terrible, dreadful, frightful, great; Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming; Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high gray wall" 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; 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; {s} frightening, causing fear; difficult, discouraging, intimidating; awesome; powerful; 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"; Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high gray wall"; If you describe something or someone as formidable, you mean that you feel slightly frightened by them because they are very great or impressive. We have a formidable task ahead of us Marsalis has a formidable reputation in both jazz and classical music; inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G; redoubtable
formidable kill-power: ability to cause great death and destruction
formidableness: {n} a formidable state or quality
formidably: {a} in a terrible or dreadful manner
Formidableness: formidability
formidability: impressive difficulty
formidableness: {i} quality of being formidable; state of being frightening or intimidating; forcefulness, greatness of strength or power
formidableness: The quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread
formidably: In a formidable manner
formidably: in a formidable manner; "the constant risk that attends the exchanges of human beings formidably armed
formidably: in a formidable manner; "the constant risk that attends the exchanges of human beings formidably armed"
formidably: frighteningly; difficultly, discouragingly; awesomely; powerfully