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Definition of daunting in English: dauntingadjectiveˈdɔːntɪŋ Seeming difficult to deal with in prospect; intimidating. 看上去棘手的；使人畏惧的 使人畏惧的任务。 Example sentencesExamples - He faces the daunting prospect of up to three different exams in one day.
- Choosing just 75 drawings from the collection presented Clayton with a daunting task.
- Was it a daunting task to make a film about the life of someone who was still very much alive?
- She's packed enough clothes for everyone so that she won't be faced with the daunting task of doing the laundry.
- On top of this, a Shakespeare monologue or script had to be learnt - a daunting prospect indeed.
- Going to university is a daunting prospect for many of us currently studying at A-level.
- The sight of the massive queue must have been daunting, but you dealt with the situation magnificently.
- Handling the sheer volume of such server-generated virus detected messages can be a daunting task.
- Stepping on court against a four-year-old shouldn't be a daunting prospect.
- Undergoing major organ transplantation is a daunting prospect for anyone.
- Standing motionless for hours on end may seem like a daunting task to most people, but they consider it fun.
- If you haven't been in a gym since school, joining can be a daunting prospect.
- Starting your own business at the tender age of 23 would seem a daunting task for most people.
- Don't let yourself be put off, however, by the daunting prospect of a 79-mile walk.
- Making a fresh start once a divorce is finalised will be a daunting prospect.
- For our police to be both effective and humane is a daunting task.
- To follow in her footsteps must be a daunting prospect for any other actor or singer.
- When Clark was placed with the team, working with a chief superintendent was quite a daunting prospect.
- It is a daunting task for any Government to ensure the health of the citizens.
- Mrs Britton, 32, said that starting a pub from scratch is a daunting task but well worth the hard work.
Synonyms intimidating, formidable, disconcerting, unnerving, unsettling, dismaying discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, demoralizing forbidding, ominous, awesome, frightening, fearsome, mean-looking challenging, taxing, exacting
Derivativesadverb As in most of Polanski's films, the world is so dauntingly evil the protagonist grows incapable of imagining an alternative future. Example sentencesExamples - Despite her shorts and tee shirt she seemed dauntingly Edwardian and thick-skirtish.
- Roughly 150,000 titles are published each year in the U.S. Without the imprimatur and promotional budget of a major publishing house, the odds of breaking through are dauntingly slim.
- It's got one of the most dauntingly bleak and unhappy endings imaginable.
- As well organized and concisely accurate as it is, the book will still be dauntingly massive for many users pining for some simple, quick reference method for getting at specific features and techniques.
- To be the first foreigner to complete the dauntingly long and dangerous journey along the entire Brahmaputra river is quite an accolade.
- Very many people can quickly find themselves in a difficult financial situation, facing a dauntingly large number of monthly demands for payment from different creditors.
- While that makes it cheaper than it has been for years for Britons to holiday abroad, it makes Yorkshire a dauntingly expensive destination for foreign tourists.
- There's everything here from simple, sometimes amusing pieces, to more dauntingly experimental and harmonically challenging works.
- Unlike many recent fantasies, at 215 pages it isn't dauntingly long.
- The dauntingly solid volumes also offer the reader an anthology of short extracts, specific illustrations of usage and enough etymological information to satisfy the more academic reader.
- Although the turnover increased dramatically to stg £13.6 million, the losses are still dauntingly high.
- Cut off from the world and supported by a private income, he composed dauntingly huge pieces which were regarded as all but unplayable.
- With or without Britain's contribution, the task of cleaning up Russia's far north is dauntingly immense.
- The book is both dauntingly far-reaching in scope and intensely personal: it moves from political theory to cultural analysis to diaristic history in around 350 quick-moving pages.
- Taken as a whole, the criticism produced by the Men of Letters throughout the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century was dauntingly didactic.
- It's a valid, though dauntingly huge question, and I'll try to begin to answer it here with reference to one subject which has been in my mind recently.
- This is a dauntingly monumental volume, and it shouldn't be read in one gulp.
- The testing equipment can also prove dauntingly expensive for relevant agencies.
- From the outside it appeared dauntingly big and difficult to navigate through; however, this was not the case.
Definition of daunting in US English: dauntingadjective Seeming difficult to deal with in anticipation; intimidating. 看上去棘手的；使人畏惧的 使人畏惧的任务。 Example sentencesExamples - Undergoing major organ transplantation is a daunting prospect for anyone.
- Going to university is a daunting prospect for many of us currently studying at A-level.
- Standing motionless for hours on end may seem like a daunting task to most people, but they consider it fun.
- Mrs Britton, 32, said that starting a pub from scratch is a daunting task but well worth the hard work.
- It is a daunting task for any Government to ensure the health of the citizens.
- He faces the daunting prospect of up to three different exams in one day.
- For our police to be both effective and humane is a daunting task.
- She's packed enough clothes for everyone so that she won't be faced with the daunting task of doing the laundry.
- Choosing just 75 drawings from the collection presented Clayton with a daunting task.
- The sight of the massive queue must have been daunting, but you dealt with the situation magnificently.
- Stepping on court against a four-year-old shouldn't be a daunting prospect.
- When Clark was placed with the team, working with a chief superintendent was quite a daunting prospect.
- Handling the sheer volume of such server-generated virus detected messages can be a daunting task.
- Starting your own business at the tender age of 23 would seem a daunting task for most people.
- Making a fresh start once a divorce is finalised will be a daunting prospect.
- To follow in her footsteps must be a daunting prospect for any other actor or singer.
- Don't let yourself be put off, however, by the daunting prospect of a 79-mile walk.
- Was it a daunting task to make a film about the life of someone who was still very much alive?
- On top of this, a Shakespeare monologue or script had to be learnt - a daunting prospect indeed.
- If you haven't been in a gym since school, joining can be a daunting prospect.
Synonyms intimidating, formidable, disconcerting, unnerving, unsettling, dismaying
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