All 8 Uses
formidable
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Three Cups of Tea
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- After fourteen years in Africa, he'd put on weight, but he held himself straight as he spoke, and looked, his son thought, if not like the athlete he'd once been, then still formidable.†
Chpt 4formidable = intimidating or impressive
- Though operating with only his left eye, Abdul took Mortenson's arm and threaded him neatly through a shifting maze of porters carrying swaying bales of wire on their heads and donkey carts rushing to deliver blocks of burlap-covered ice before the already formidable heat shrank their value.†
Chpt 6
- As the river has found the only possible way through this ferociously formidable knot of mountains, there is no alternative but to follow it.†
Chpt 7 *
- But Mortenson, who'd studied relief maps of the Karakoram for months as he waited out storms at K2 base camp, knew that one of the world's most formidable peaks, 25,660-foot Masherbrum, lay dead ahead.†
Chpt 8
- Down the north bank of the Braldu, a formidable-looking American man wearing a white baseball cap approached, leaning on a walking stick.†
Chpt 10
- Parvi, who already made two thousand dollars annually as CAI's director in Pakistan, would now receive four thousand dollars a year, a formidable salary in Skardu for the man who made all of CAI's projects in Pakistan possible.†
Chpt 22
- This rocky spine of fifteen-thousand-foot peaks separating northern Afghanistan from the central Shomali Plain had been Massoud's most formidable line of defense from the Taliban.†
Chpt 23
- And those opium profits, funneled back to the warlords, as they were called in the West, or commandhans, as they were known in Afghanistan, enabled them to recruit and equip formidable private militias, making the feeble central government of Hamid Karzai increasingly irrelevant the farther you traveled from Kabul.†
Chpt 23
Definitions:
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(1)
(formidable) intimidating or impressive -- arousing fear or admiration due to impressiveness or challenge
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)