INTIMIDATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intimidating mean? 

• INTIMIDATING (adjective)
  The adjective INTIMIDATING has 1 sense:

1. discouraging through fear

  Familiarity information: INTIMIDATING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTIMIDATING (adjective)

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 

Therefore the hair stood up on end along his back and his lips wrinkled weakly in an attempt at a ferocious and intimidating snarl.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He was sprawling along between some bushes, when he heard a sharp intimidating cry.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

All that they saw of him was his bushy tail and fleeing hind legs—a view far less ferocious and intimidating than his bristling mane and gleaming fangs.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He heard again the intimidating cry, and at the same instant received a sharp blow on the side of the neck and felt the sharp teeth of the mother-weasel cut into his flesh.

(White Fang, by Jack London)