dauntingly
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7.5
- adverb
- /ˈdɔːntɪŋli/
:
intimidantemente
- The homework was dauntingly difficult, leaving many students feeling overwhelmed.
- dauntingly complex
- dauntingly expensive
- dauntingly wide
Examples
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This tunnel was more than a hundred feet long, and although faint silvery moonlight glimmered at the farther end, the way ahead was dauntingly dark.
Fiction book (1998) -
Traveling with Pandora was a little like traveling with an ebullient child or a dog—entertaining and companionable but also quite dauntingly draining.
Fiction book (1990) -
But the challenges remain dauntingly large.
Academic text (2010) -
For proteins, the situation is actually dauntingly more complex.
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They had assembled to shell a dauntingly high mountain of beans.
Fiction book (1992) -
Explaining unsustainable behavior is therefore "dauntingly complex, both in its variety and in the causal influences on it."
Academic text (2005) -
It was becoming dauntingly apparent that it would not be possible for me to fulfill my teaching duties primarily through or within Oxford's sociological enclave.
Academic text (1999) -
The dauntingly complex laboratory manifestations of the strong interactions had prompted Freeman Dyson in the late 1950s to predict pessimistically that it might be 100 years before a proper theory emerged.
Academic text (2004) -
While interest in the content of the material may be strong, lack of expertise and dauntingly high reformatting costs present insurmountable hurdles for many institutions to overcome, particularly as librarians contemplate the needs of audiovisual material.
Academic text (2012) -
After intermission, he performed Book III of Cage's Etudes Australes, a dauntingly difficult 40-minute excerpt from a four-book collection Cage composed in 1974-75.
Blog text (5)
Synonyms
1
5.6
In a way that makes people lose confidence or interest
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7.4
In a way that makes you feel disappointed and lose hope
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7.7
In a way that makes people lose hope or confidence
Antonyms
How Daunting
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dauntingly comes from the verb daunt, which long ago meant 'to tame' a wild animal. If something 'tames' you it makes you feel small or afraid, so dauntingly describes something that seems very difficult or intimidating.