formidable
adjective
causing fear, apprehension, or dread.
formidably
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a word derived from
formidable.
Example Sentences
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Last year’s LP “Getting Killed” raised the stakes formidably, both for the band’s fame and their songwriting prowess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
His effortlessly epic, formidably impressive “The Odyssey,” which opens Friday, clocks in at 2 hours, 53 minutes, which in the Imax film version Nolan prefers comes out to approximately 11 miles of celluloid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Swinney said there needed to be a "considered discussion" around reintroducing species, pointing out that the beaver population in Perthshire was now "formidably more comprehensive than it was at the beginning".
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025
In “Wrong Number,” a small canvas on which two tulips emerge on either side of a small lavender sun, a thin layer of white sitting over a block of teal looks formidably complex.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
She had a reputation for being formidably intelligent, and in those days one often tended to hear of how she had humiliated this or that learned gentleman at dinner over some important contemporary issue.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
