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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
intimidating \intimidating\ adjective discouraging; inhibiting; deterring. Opposite of {encouraging}.
Syn: daunting. [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Intimidate \In*tim"i*date\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Intimidated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Intimidating}.] [LL. intimidatus, p. p. of intimidare to frighten; pref. in- in + timidus fearful, timid: cf. F. intimider. See {Timid}.] To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.
Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. --Johnson.
Syn: To dishearten; dispirit; abash; deter; frighten; terrify; daunt; cow.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
intimidating
adjective: discouraging through fear [syn: {daunting}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "intimidating": abusive, admonitory, bludgeoning, blustering, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, cautionary, comminatory, denunciatory, deterrent, discouraging, disinclining, dissuading, dissuasive, expostulatory, fear-inspiring, foreboding, hectoring, imminent, lowering, menacing, minacious, minatory, monitory, ominous, terroristic, terrorizing, threatening, threatful
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