formidable
adjective
causing fear, apprehension, or dread.
formidably
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a word derived from
formidable.
Example Sentences
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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
South African artist Candice Breitz described Kouoh as "magnificently intelligent, endlessly energetic and formidably elegant".
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
The time is the present, give or take a few years, and the place is a grim, gray stone convent with sweeping grounds and formidably high walls.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
At 24, Cleveland-born, classically trained stage actor Josiah Cross won his first major screen role — playing a fraught 17-year-old opposite the formidably talented Teyana Taylor as his desperate mother in “A Thousand and One.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 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
