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daunting
Meaning: seeming difficult or frightening to face
daunting in a sentence
How daunting is used in real sentences:
Restoring the abandoned theater seemed daunting at first.
The steep, unmarked trail looked daunting to the young hikers.
“Over the next decade, the single bone became a daunting test because every proposed identification depended on tiny ridges that erosion might have altered.”
— from the passage The Bone That Would Not Settle
Synonyms for daunting
Other words for daunting — formidable, intimidating and discouraging — carry the same meaning.
- formidable
- intimidating
- discouraging
Antonyms of daunting
Words that mean the opposite of daunting:
- inviting
- manageable
- encouraging
Where it comes from
From Old French danter, meaning 'to tame or subdue.'
Memory hook
DAUNTING contains DAUNT: it daunts you by making a task seem hard to face.