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强大的,可怕的,艰难的

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Formidable \For"mi*da*ble\, a. [L. formidabilis, fr. formidare
   to fear, dread: cf. F. formidable.]
   Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to
   excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or
   undertaking; alarming.

         They seemed to fear the formodable sight. --Dryden.

         I swell my preface into a volume, and make it
         formidable, when you see so many pages behind. --Drydn.

   Syn: Dreadful; fearful; terrible; frightful; shocking;
        horrible; terrific; tremendous.

资料来源 : WordNet®

formidable
     adj 1: extremely impressive in strength or excellence; "a
            formidable opponent"; "the challenge was formidable";
            "had a formidable array of compositions to his
            credit"; "the formidable army of brains at the Prime
            Minister's disposal"
     2: inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery";
        "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the
        heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston;
        "something unnerving and prisonlike about high gray wall"
        [syn: {redoubtable}, {unnerving}]