formidable
英 ['f??m?d?b(?)l; f??'m?d-]
美['f?rm?d?bl]
- adj. 强大的；可怕的；令人敬畏的；艰难的
英英释意
- 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"