daunting

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Discouraging; inspiring fear.

   “Deathes daunting dart where so his buffet lights, / Shall shape no change within my friendly corse: / But dead or liue, in heauen, in earth, in hell, / I wilbe thine where so my carkase dwell.”

2. sıfat Intimidatingly impressive; awe-inspiring, overwhelming.

   “She reached it soon after half-past two. She found its gloomy nineteenth-century façade, black with the smuts of ninety years, a little daunting, and mounted its broad steps in some trepidation. But she rang the bell hard and knocked firmly.”

3. sıfat Appearing to be difficult; challenging.

   “It was a daunting task, but it was accomplished with some forward planning.”

4. isim The act of discouraging or intimidating; discouragement, intimidation.

   “Face to face with the true mountains, / I stood silently and still; / Drawing strength for fancy's dauntings, / From the air about the hill, / And from Nature's open mercies, and most debonaire goodwill.”

5. isim The act of defeating, overcoming, or overwhelming.

   “Then came in two by two, other Troopes, whoſe onſets, and ouer-throwes, honours, and diſgraces, darings, and dauntings, merit an ample Chronicle, rather than an Abſtract; [...]”

6. fiil present participle and gerund of daunt