daunting
/ˈdɔntɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Appearing to be difficult; challenging.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "Abd-ool-Azeez gave the stranger a daunting look, but coolly proceeded."
- "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."
- "Curiously, though we are exceedingly frank talkers in the United States on what may be called the static aspects of sex life—physiology hygiene and economics, all its experiential love is hedged about with conventional inhibitions, the most daunting of which is the convention that bars reforming intimacies between young men and older women."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdɔntɪŋ/
- British English: /ˈdɔːntɪŋ/