Definition of Formidable

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Definition of Formidable
	Formidable Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming. Related Definitions: Adapted, Alarming, And, Apprehension, Approach, Deter, Dread, Encounter, Excite, Exciting, Fear, From, Impressing, Or, To, Undertaking

Formidable Quotations

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
Ronald Reagan

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
George Washington

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
Thomas Paine

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
Alexis de Tocqueville

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
Charles M. Schulz

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
Eric Hoffer

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
Marlene Dietrich

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Formidable Translations

formidable in Dutch is buitengewoon
formidable in French is atroce, extraordinaire
formidable in German is furchtbar
formidable in Italian is opimo
formidable in Norwegian is fryktinngytende, imponerende
formidable in Spanish is fecundo, temible

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