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Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming.

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  1. a. Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming.
  2. adj. extremely impressive in strength or excellence
  3. adj. inspiring fear
  4. 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.
  5. Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted toexcite 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 yousee so many pages behind. Drydn.
  6. j:100 s. extremely impressive in strength or excellence s. inspiring fear