| formidability | (n) impressive difficulty, Syn. toughness |
| formidable | (adj) extremely impressive in strength or excellence, Example: 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 |
| formidable | (adj) inspiring fear; ; - G.H.Johnston, Syn. unnerving, redoubtable, Example: the formidable prospect of major surgery; a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic; something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall |
| formidably | (adv) in a formidable manner, Example: the constant risk that attends the exchanges of human beings formidably armed |
| Formidability | n. Formidableness. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Formidable | 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. [ 1913 Webster ] They seemed to fear the formodable sight. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] I swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when you see so many pages behind. Drydn. |
| Formidableness | n. The quality of being formidable, or adapted to excite dread. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Formidably | adv. In a formidable manner. [ 1913 Webster ] |