dauntsome

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adjective

Characterised or marked by daunting; intimidating.

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Meanings

adjectivedauntsome (comparative more dauntsome, superlative most dauntsome)

comparative more dauntsome · superlative most dauntsome

  1. Characterised or marked by daunting; intimidating.

    Miss Maryllia was just as peart and dauntsome when she was her age.

    1904, Marie Corelli, God's Good Man, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN
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    At the foot of this dauntsome grind is the famous Grimsel Hospice, sold eighteen years ago to a captain of the tourist industry, after being owned and worked by the commune of Hasli for the respectable term of 520 years.

    1919, American Lutheran Survey: Volumes 11-12, Lutheran Survey Publishing Company, page 28

Origin

From daunt + -some.

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Chicago

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