Word.ws English Dictionary

daunted

daunted is the simple past and past participle of daunt.

Meaning of daunt

Verb

daunt (third-person singular simple present daunts, present participle daunting, simple past and past participle daunted)

  1. (transitive) To discourage, intimidate.
    • [The English] valiantly, and with the ſlaughter of many, put backe the enemy: which was ſo farre from daunting the Normans, that by it they were more whetted to re-enforce themſelues vpon them[…]1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Harold the Second of that Name, the Sonne of Earle Goodwine, and Thirtie Eight Monarch of the Englishmen, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the...
  2. (transitive) To overwhelm.

See all 3 meanings of daunt

Adjective

daunted (comparative more daunted, superlative most daunted)

  1. (Normally with a copular verb) . Mildly afraid or worried by some upcoming situation.
    • I was daunted by the prospect of interviewing such a heavyweight politician.

Forms of daunted

comparativemore daunted
superlativemost daunted

Words formed from daunted

Questions about daunted

What does daunted mean?
Daunted means . Mildly afraid or worried by some upcoming situation.
What is daunted the simple past and past participle of?
Daunted is the simple past and past participle of daunt.
What part of speech is daunted?
Daunted is an adjective.

Words near daunted in the dictionary

  1. daunorubicins
  2. daunosamine
  3. daunosamines
  4. daunt
  5. dauntable
  6. daunted
  7. dauntedly
  8. daunter
  9. daunters
  10. daunting
  11. dauntingly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: daunted (page history and authors); daunt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “daunted.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/daunted. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.