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What is the adjective for intimidating?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb intimidate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

intimidatory
  1. (rare) That intimidates; intimidating.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. threatening, ominous, menacing, sinister, inauspicious, dire, baleful, foreboding, direful, unfavorable, unpropitious, forbidding, unfavourable, dangerous, portentous, ill, doomy, unlucky, grim, gloomy, unpromising, dark, evil, bodeful, baneful, black, brooding, glowering, nasty, heavy, ugly, loury, pessimistic, thunderous, wintery, wintry, apocalyptic, lowering, lowery, ill-boding, ill-fated, minacious, intimidating, minatory, aggressive, frightening, hostile, terrorizing, terrorising, fearsome … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Members of DOVE stand accused of being vindicative, scaremongering and using intimidatory tactics to name but a few.”
      “For example, when does aggressive and somewhat intimidatory interrogation of a suspect become torture?”
      “The brakes will be off what has already been the most arrogant, aggressive and intimidatory government in the history of our country.”
intimidated
  1. Subjected to intimidation.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. frightened, scared, alarmed, afraid, nervous, panicky, terrified, petrified, apprehensive, cowed, unnerved, terrorised, terrorized, daunted, affrighted, bullied, browbeaten, abashed, unsettled, overawed, overwhelmed, terror-stricken, scared stiff, in a cold sweat, in a panic, numb with fear, in fear and trepidation, fearful, horrified, timorous, jittery, jumpy, hysterical, spooked, anxious, cowardly, timid, panic-stricken, spineless, scared to death, startled, shocked, aghast, frantic, windy, trembling, cowering, gutless, tremulous, feart … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “With Will, it's so easy not to feel intimidated because he puts you at ease.”
intimidating
  1. threatening
  2. Synonyms:
      3. frightening, terrifying, horrifying, alarming, scary, fearsome, dreadful, terrible, frightful, horrible, shocking, formidable, forbidding, horrendous, ghastly, daunting, dire, fearful, direful, redoubtable, unnerving, dread, menacing, threatening, dismaying, spooky, bloodcurdling, baleful, overwhelming, terrorising, terrorizing, spine-chilling, hair-raising, nerve-racking, awful, appalling, grim, sinister, horrid, petrifying, creepy, distressing, chilling, disturbing, hideous, ominous, macabre, disquieting, gruesome, unspeakable … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “This is a truly intimidating storm. This blackens the sky and sends people scurrying. It makes cowards of us all.”
      “With an intimidating look on his face and the coldness in his eyes, Fred started to speak, in his low intimidating voice.”
      “Even her grandfather, who had been an intimidating tyrant to his sons, loved her.”
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