FORM'IDABLE, a. [L. formidabilis, from formido, fear.] Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter or undertaking. It expresses less than terrible, terrific, tremendous, horrible, and frightful.They seemed to fear the formidable sight.I swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when you see so many pages behind.
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