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DAUNTING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does daunting mean?
• DAUNTING (adjective)
The adjective DAUNTING has 1 sense:
1. discouraging through fear
Familiarity information: DAUNTING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Discouraging through fear
Synonyms:
daunting; intimidating
Similar:
discouraging (depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action)
Context examples
As a result, cancer therapy remains a daunting diagnosis for patients and treatment options seem limited for a disease which causes one in six deaths globally.
(‘Energetic Cancer Cells’ May Be Origin of Cancer Spread, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
As is usual with your sign, you soldiered on no matter how daunting the tasks, taking one day at a time and putting one foot in front of the other.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
If you are saying to yourself that you would love to move, but the cost of such an undertaking seems daunting, the universe might have a plan to help you get started.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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