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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
daunting
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a formidable/daunting task (=very difficult)
▪ Achieving these targets will be a formidable task.
a formidable/daunting/tough challenge (=a very difficult one)
▪ How to deal with waste is a daunting challenge for the west.
daunting (=frightening in a way that makes you not feel confident)
▪ It is a pretty daunting prospect, being on stage for forty minutes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
prospect
▪ Starting the time-consuming process of interviewing childminders all over again was a daunting prospect.
▪ It is a daunting prospect and an outcome few people want.
▪ Finding schools abroad may be a daunting prospect for employees.
▪ Excuses vary from difficulties in obtaining payment to the daunting prospect of completing export documentation.
▪ Coming on to a new series for the first time could be a daunting prospect even to the acting profession's hardy perennials.
▪ The extra cost of upgrading computers alone would be a daunting prospect for already over-stretched education budgets.
▪ Ditching its shareholders is an equally daunting prospect.
▪ Five days of close assessment was a very daunting prospect.
task
▪ Few enterprises, it says, could have been faced with such a daunting task.
▪ To give a full picture of this past is a daunting task, not within the scope of this book.
▪ Steve recently completed the daunting task of photographing 100 leading western philosophers.
▪ Planning and producing written work, quoting sources, checking: these too are often daunting tasks for the student.
▪ In my opinion the hardest task on the holding is to overcome inertia, to make a start on the daunting task.
▪ As a consequence of the suggestion Laureen Williamson was approached and readily agreed to undertake the daunting task.
▪ Attempting to install Pizazz Convert in Windows, can be a daunting task for the novice.
▪ For any social species whose behaviour is less regular than clockwork, even this ground-clearing goal is a daunting task.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Climbing Everest is a daunting challenge for any mountaineer.
▪ I was faced with the daunting task of learning the whole script in 24 hours.
▪ The interview process can be daunting.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A daunting figure came looming out of the night.
▪ Excuses vary from difficulties in obtaining payment to the daunting prospect of completing export documentation.
▪ Few enterprises, it says, could have been faced with such a daunting task.
▪ Neil was devoted to Claudia, but he found Philip frankly daunting.
▪ Steve recently completed the daunting task of photographing 100 leading western philosophers.
▪ To give a full picture of this past is a daunting task, not within the scope of this book.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
daunting

daunting \daunting\ adj. serving to discourage, dishearten, or intimidate; discouraging; disheartening. Opposite of encouraging.

Syn: intimidating.

Wiktionary
daunting

  1. 1 discouraging, inspiring fear 2 overwhelming, intimidatingly impressive v

  2. (present participle of daunt English)

WordNet
daunting

adj. discouraging through fear [syn: intimidating]

Usage examples of "daunting".

They seemed to find her lack of response rather daunting, even the more acerbic Gelana.

Graig was an old man but his eyes still twinkled, and he still looked daunting in his crimson uniform.

So, while he turned to the daunting job of commanding the debarkation of all our company and our gear, I hailed a karaji ferry skiff and, fending off the solicitors, was the first to go ashore.

His image of England was the view from the village, the tracks that led away in each direction to impenetrable distances, ever mistier, vaguer and more daunting.

When he stopped looking at her legs and breasts in anticipation he saw there was a daunting expression on her face.

She leaned back against the seat and stared at Billy, suddenly overwhelmed by the daunting task ahead of them.

The larger, older man wore a full beardonce black, but now shot through with white, like his shoulder-length hairand this, when combined with his six feet of height, his big bones, his deep chest, rolling muscles, and plentitude of warlike scars, gave him a daunting appearance that any of the Vikings of old would have truly envied.

HIV protease and the human proteases that are essential to the digestive process, resulting in a list of ill effects every bit as daunting as that pertaining to AZT, including kidney and liver failure, strokes, heart attacks, and gross deformities.

Moreover, authoring an encyclopaedia was such a daunting and expensive task that only states, academic institutions, or well-funded businesses were able to produce them.

Four computer stations occupied the forward and aft walls, and the outside wall was filled with the daunting array of processing equipment needed to prepare samples for geochemical analysis.

He had been born beneath the wide skies of Helicon, and had at first found these covered environs a little daunting, even depressing, but his long decades on Trantor had gradually inured him.

More daunting than mere lawbreaking, too, was imagining the revenge Piet Hardie would take on him if he tried and failed.

All the rivers ran between east and west, west and east, and the daunting mountain chain of the Apennines divided peninsular Italy from Italian Gaul all the way from the Adriatic seaboard to the coast of Liguria.

Southwest deserts perhaps a tired salesman assigned to a territory so vast that it tested his stamina dazed by the daunting distances between destinations, by sun-silvered highways that seemed to go on forever.

But just as NSA seems to be getting its need for mathematicians under control, it is facing an even more daunting task in recruiting enough computer scientists.