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dauntsome

dauntsome adjective: characterised or marked by daunting; intimidating.

Adjective

dauntsome (comparative more dauntsome, superlative most dauntsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by daunting; intimidating.
    • Miss Maryllia was just as peart and dauntsome when she was her age.1904, Marie Corelli, God's Good Man, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN
    • At the foot of this dauntsome grind is the famous Grimsel Hospice, sold eighteen years ago to a captain of the tourist industry, after being owned and worked by the commune of Hasli for the respectable term of 520 years.1919, American Lutheran Survey: Volumes 11-12, Lutheran Survey Publishing Company, page 28

Forms of dauntsome

comparativemore dauntsome
superlativemost dauntsome

Origin of dauntsome

From daunt + -some.

Questions about dauntsome

What does dauntsome mean?
Dauntsome means characterised or marked by daunting; intimidating.
What part of speech is dauntsome?
Dauntsome is an adjective.

Words near dauntsome in the dictionary

  1. dauntlessly
  2. dauntlessness
  3. Daunton
  4. daunts
  5. Dauntsey
  6. dauntsome
  7. daunyng
  8. dauphin
  9. Dauphin County
  10. dauphinate
  11. Dauphinate of Auvergne

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