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What does formidable mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word formidable? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Causing fear, dread, awe, or discouragement as a result of size, strength, or some other impressive feature; commanding respect; causing wonder or astonishment
  2. Difficult to defeat or overcome.
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Blacks, whites, shadows, glooms, and cobwebs are also used with formidable effect in the Satis House scenes in Great Expectations.
The exhibition opens with a section on Solomon's juvenilia, and shows him already with a voice of his own and a formidable technique.
One of these visitors was Johann Hummel, well known in his day as a formidable pianist outdone on the keyboard only by Beethoven himself.
The report said the abolition of import quotas on Chinese textiles and apparel in key markets in 2005 will make China a formidable competitor.
Together they form a formidable A-team of masterful musicians who are so special you feel that they are capable of tilting the world on its axis.
Big rivers, formidable mountains and jungle-like rainforest were among the physical challenges.

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