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intimidating or impressive — arousing fear or admiration due to impressiveness or challenge
- But for women, I thought, looking at the empty shelves, these difficulties were infinitely more formidable.3 (70% in)
- —and then on the terrace, as if popping out to breathe the air, to glance at the garden, came a bent figure, formidable yet humble, with her great forehead and her shabby dress—could it be the famous scholar, could it be J—— H—— herself?1 (64% in)
- Such material difficulties were formidable; but much worse were the immaterial.3 (72% in)
- But though this is possible now, such opinions coming from the lips of important people must have been formidable enough even fifty years ago.3 (80% in)
There are no more uses of "formidable" in A Room of One's Own.
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