daunting

daunting englannista suomeksi

1. lannistava, musertava

1. pelottava

2. musertava

2. Substantiivi

2. Verbi

daunting englanniksi

1. Discouraging; inspiring fear.

(synonyms)

(antonyms)

2. (quote-book) In Twenty-one Volumes|location=London|publisher=Printed for Johnson (publisher)|Joseph Johnson ''et al.''|year=a. 1530|year_published=1810|volume=II|page=528|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=dPYSAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA528|column=2|oclc=457440867|passage=Deathes daunting dart where so his buffet lights, / Shall shape no change within my friendly corse: / But dead or liue, in heauen, in earth, in hell, / I wilbe thine where so my carkase dwell.

3. (quote-book) or Wilson (dramatist)|Robert Wilson|title=Em|A Pleasant Comedie of Faire Em, the Millers Daughter of Manchester: With the Loue of William the Conqueror.(nb...)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LCLPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP38|series=Second Quarto|location=London|publisher=Printed for Wright (bookseller died 1658)|Iohn Wright,(nb...)|year=c. 1590|year_published=1631|oclc=1121300235|passage=As for his menacing and daunting threats / I nill regard him nor his Daniſh power: / For if he come to fetch her forth my Realme, / I will prouide him ſuch a banquet here.

4. (quote-book)|title=The British Theatre; or, A Collection of Plays, which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and Haymarket. (...) In Twenty-five Volumes|location=London|publisher=Printed Savage and Easingwood for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme,(nb...)|year=1795 February 28 (first performance)|year_published=1808|volume=XVIII|section=act II, scene i|page=24|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=5PIxAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA24|oclc=262469370|passage=''Temp''''est''. ... Emily is for ever giggling. / ''Sir D''''avid'' ''D''''aw''. She is not singular in that: go where I will, they giggle; that is rather daunting, you must think.

5. (RQ:Hope Anastasius)

6. (quote-journal)|month=January|year=1906|volume=XV|issue=87|section=chapter II (The Tapping on the Wainscot)|page=266|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=VmBEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA266|column=2|oclc=1123065091|passage=Instead of a single tap, ... it became a hurried knocking, moving round the room behind the wainscot as if in search of something. I could have sworn that Someone or Something was ''feeling its way along''. The daunting sounds arrived at the middle of the wall opposite the foot of the great bed, and became stationary.

7. (quote-journal)

8. Intimidatingly impressive; awe-inspiring, overwhelming.

(syn)

9. (quote-book)|chapter=Wherein the Excellency of This Gracious Spirit Appeares|title=The Excellency of a Gracious Spirit. Delivered in a Treatise upon the 14. of Numbers, Verse 24|location=London|publisher=Printed by Miles Flesher for Robert Davvlman, and Luke Fawne,(nb...)|year=1638|pages=103–104|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=8QL9ucFbMyMC&pg=PA104|oclc=1065085880|passage=Wiſdome, much more all the excellencies of this Spirit) makes a mans face to ſhine; as the light of a Lanterne puts a luſtre upon the Lanterne, ſo the brightneſſe of theſe ſpirits puts a luſtre upon the men in whom they are. Men of ſuch ſpirts(sic) as theſe are, have a daunting preſence in the eyes of thoſe who behold them.

10. (quote-book)

11. Appearing to be difficult; challenging.

(ux)

12. (gerund of).

13. The act of discouraging or intimidating; discouragement, intimidation.

14. (RQ:Browning Poems)

15. (quote-journal), and the Principles Developed in His Career|editor=John Kitto|journal=The Journal of Sacred Literature|location=London|publisher=C. Cox,(nb...); Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd; Dublin: J. Robertson,(nb...)|month=January|year=1849|volume=III|issue=V|page=38|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_kDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA38|oclc=213386790|passage=But stigmatise it as we please there never was a great man without a strong will, and an infusion of self-reliance sufficient to raise him above the dauntings of opposition and reliance on props.

16. The act of defeating, overcoming, or overwhelming.

17. (quote-book)|series=Huth (bibliophile)|The Huth Library|location=London|publisher=Printed Hazell, Watson, & Viney for private circulation only|year=1613|year_published=1885|volume=III|pages=339–340|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=xTc1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA340|oclc=812134651|passage=Then came in two by two, other Troopes, whoſe onſets, and ouer-throwes, honours, and diſgraces, darings, and dauntings, merit an ample ''Chronicle'', rather than an ''Abſtract''; ...

18. (infl of)