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redoubtable definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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]
2: worthy of respect or honor; "born of a redoubtable family"

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English redoutable, from Anglo-French, from reduter to dread, from re- + duter to doubt Date: 15th century 1. causing fear or alarm ; formidable 2. illustrious, eminent; broadly worthy of respect • redoubtably adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. formidable, esp. as an opponent. Derivatives: redoubtably adv. Etymology: ME f. OF redoutable f. redouter fear (as RE-, DOUBT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Redoubtable Re*doubt"a*ble (-?*b'l), a. [F. redoutable, formerly also spelt redoubtable.] Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque. [Written also redoutable.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as redoubtable, you respect them because they have a very strong character, even though you are slightly afraid of them. He is a redoubtable fighter. = formidable ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Formidable, terrible (to foes), dreadful, awful. 2. Valiant.

Moby Thesaurus

appalling, astounding, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, celebrated, dire, direful, distinguished, dread, dreaded, dreadful, eminent, famed, fell, formidable, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, great, grim, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, illustrious, macabre, morbid, notable, prominent, renowned, schrecklich, shocking, terrible, terrific, tremendous