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What does formidable mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word formidable? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Causing fear, dread, awe, or discouragement as a result of size, strength, or some other impressive feature; commanding respect; causing wonder or astonishment
  2. Difficult to defeat or overcome.
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It was solid oak, hard and formidable, shining gloss in the dimly lit kitchen.
Big rivers, formidable mountains and jungle-like rainforest were among the physical challenges.
Many have sought to portray George VI as a weakling who was moulded by his formidable wife.
Blacks, whites, shadows, glooms, and cobwebs are also used with formidable effect in the Satis House scenes in Great Expectations.
That made her much more formidable an adversary because she didn't have the usual narcissistic vanity.
The exhibition opens with a section on Solomon's juvenilia, and shows him already with a voice of his own and a formidable technique.

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