formidable : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: formidable	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
formidable adj 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" 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 grey wall" Synonym(s): formidable, redoubtable, unnerving
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Formidable \For"midable\, 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. --Dryden. I swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when you see so many pages behind. --Drydn. Syn: Dreadful; fearful; terrible; frightful; shocking; horrible; terrific; tremendous.