Sample Sentences for
daunt
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    The alchemist was a bit daunting, but, as the boy drank the wine, he relaxed.  (source)
    daunting = intimidating
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    He lay on the floor and he thought of ... the daunting complex mission Dumbledore had left him...  (source)
    daunting = discouraging or intimidating
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    She tried four times to knock on the daunting flesh of the door, but she could not bring herself to do it.  (source)
    daunting = intimidating
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    facing peril and death with dauntless heart, going to his doom with a grim smile on his lips.  (source)
    dauntless = a never discouraged
    standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in dauntless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
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    I am a wild beast, my friend: untamed and undaunted.  (source)
    undaunted = not discouraged or afraid
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undaunted means not and reverses the meaning of daunted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The word was too good, too bitter, too successfully daunting to be repeated.  (source)
    daunting = discouraging or intimidating
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    He was not daunted by the distance,  (source)
    daunted = discouraged or intimidated
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    With St. Paul, I acknowledge myself the chiefest of sinners; but I do not suffer this sense of my personal vileness to daunt me.†  (source)
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    Don't be troubled, Meg, poverty seldom daunts a sincere lover.  (source)
    daunts = discourages
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    'Well, frankly, I don't know how long America is going to last,' he proceeded dauntlessly.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-lessly" in dauntlessly means in a manner that is without. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmlessly, fearlessly, and remorselessly.
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    He knew all about the details of the house: Pietro Crespi's suicide, Arcadio's arbitrary acts and execution, the dauntlessness of Jose Arcadio Buendia underneath the chestnut tree.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-lessness" in dauntlessness means in a state without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearlessness, powerlessness, and harmlessness.
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    The textbooks Mr. Sanchez was piling onto his desk looked dauntingly thick.†  (source)
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    But the Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious.  (source)
    dauntless = never discouraged or intimidated
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