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redoubtable |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Redoubtable \Re*doubt"a*ble\ (-?*b'l), a. [F. redoutable, formerly also spelt redoubtable.] Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as a redoubtable hero; hence valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque. [Written also {redoutable}.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: redoubtable adj 1: inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high gray wall" [syn: {formidable}, {unnerving}] 2: having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the Renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family" [syn: {glorious}, {illustrious}, {respected}]
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