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
The paper described her as a "formidably talented" musician who was enjoying a "meteoric rise".
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2023
In the three years he delved into Egyptian art, Freer may not have untangled the country’s formidably lengthy, richly multicultural history.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023
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
