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Meaning of formidable

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  formidable
      adj 1: extremely impressive in strength or excellence; "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"
      2: inspiring fear; "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" [syn:
         {formidable}, {redoubtable}, {unnerving}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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