Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
inspiring fear;
- Example: "the formidable prospect of major surgery"- Example: "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston- Example: "something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall"[syn: formidable, redoubtable, unnerving]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
unnerving
adj 1: inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major
surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than
the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston;
"something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall"
[syn: formidable, redoubtable, unnerving]