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intimidating

Main Entry:
intimidating
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: threatening
Synonyms: aggressive, bullying, frightening, pressuring, terrifying, terrorizing
Main Entry: awesome
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: amazing
Synonyms: alarming, astonishing, awe-inspiring, awful, beautiful, breathtaking, daunting, dreadful, exalted, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frantic, frightening, grand, hairy*, horrible, horrifying, imposing, impressive, intimidating, magnificent, majestic, mean, mind-blowing*, moving, nervous, overwhelming, real gone, shocking, something else, striking, stunning, stupefying, terrible, terrifying, wonderful, wondrous, zero cool
Antonyms: unamazing
Main Entry: formidable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: horrible, terrifying
Synonyms: appalling, awful, dangerous, daunting, dire, dismaying, dreadful, fearful, fierce, frightful, horrific, imposing, impregnable, intimidating, menacing, redoubtable, shocking, terrible, terrific, threatening
Antonyms: feeble, friendly, harmless, nice, pleasant, powerless, weak
Main Entry: formidable
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: difficult, overwhelming
Synonyms: all-powerful, arduous, awesome, ballbuster, challenging, colossal, dismaying, effortful, great, hard, impressive, indomitable, intimidating, labored, laborious, mammoth, mighty, murder*, onerous, overpowering, powerful, puissant, rough go, rough*, staggering, strenuous, tall order, toilsome, tough proposition, tough*, tremendous, uphill
Antonyms: easy, not hard, pleasant, trivial
Main Entry: frightful/frightening
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: scary, shocking
Synonyms: alarming, appalling, atrocious, awesome, awful, chilling, daunting, dire, direful, dismaying, disquieting, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, ghastly, grabber, grim, grisly, gruesome, hair-raising, hairy, harrowing, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, inconceivable, intimidating, lurid, macabre, menacing, morbid, ominous, petrifying, portentous, repellent, spooky, terrible, terrifying, traumatic, unnerving, unspeakable
Antonyms: calming, comforting, pleasing
Main Entry: scary
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: frightening, terrifying
Synonyms: alarming, bloodcurdling, chilling, creepy, eerie, hair-raising, hairy*, horrendous, horrifying, intimidating, shocking, spine-chilling, spooky, unnerving
Antonyms: calming, encouraging, soothing
Main Entry: truculent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: belligerent, hateful
Synonyms: abusive, aggressive, antagonistic, bad-tempered, barbarous, bellicose, browbeating, brutal, bullying, caustic, combative, contentious, contumelious, cowing, cross, defiant, ferocious, fierce, frightening, harsh, hostile, inhuman, inhumane, intimidating, invective, mean, militant, mordacious, mordant, obstreperous, opprobrious, ornery*, pugnacious, quarrelsome, rude, savage, scathing, scrappy, scurrilous, sharp, sullen, terrifying, terrorizing, trenchant, violent, vituperative, vituperous
Antonyms: cooperative, gentle, mild, nice, tame
Main Entry: coercive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: forcible
Synonyms: bullying, forced, forceful, intimidating, violent
Main Entry: fearsome
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: alarming
Synonyms: awe-inspiring, awesome, distressing, formidable, frightening, frightful, horrible, imposing, impressive, intimidating, massive, powerful, scary, shocking, striking, terrible, terrifying, tremendous
Notes: someone may be fearful; someone or something may be fearsome
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