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REDOUBTABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does redoubtable mean?
• REDOUBTABLE (adjective)
The adjective REDOUBTABLE has 2 senses:
1. inspiring fear
2. worthy of respect or honor
Familiarity information: REDOUBTABLE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inspiring fear
Synonyms:
formidable; redoubtable; unnerving
Context example:
something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall
Similar:
alarming (frightening because of an awareness of danger)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Worthy of respect or honor
Context example:
born of a redoubtable family
Similar:
reputable (having a good reputation)
Context examples
But White Fang, uncompanionable, solitary, morose, scarcely looking to right or left, redoubtable, forbidding of aspect, remote and alien, was accepted as an equal by his puzzled elders.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Hey! Why, what the dickens has come to the fellow? said the old gentleman, as Laurie came running downstairs and brought up with a start of surprise at the astounding sight of Jo arm in arm with his redoubtable grandfather.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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