What is the meaning of formidable?

adjective

  • Extremely impressive in strength or excellence.
    • usage: "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.
    • usage: "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"
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