Wiktionary
adv. In a daunting manner.
WordNet
adv. to a degree or in a manner that daunts; "dauntingly difficult"
Usage examples of "dauntingly".
The Desert of Tears roiled around him in every direction, an endless sea of sand and dunes and red mountains standing dauntingly in the distance.
Fashioned of brilliant green silk, the hem was caught up with rosettes to reveal a dauntingly feminine froth of petticoats.
The tide appeared to be rising, and the fierce seas were wasting no time in announcing their intentions to sweep us into the depths which lay dauntingly on either side of us.
The trouble is, she thought, that the three of us are so dauntingly different from each other!
The ability of the Islander fleet to back water as fast as the Confeds were advancing was dauntingly impressive, in its waythey werent charging, but the pace wasnt leisurely, by any manner of means.
Instead, he squinted his way through a dauntingly ungrammatical letter from someone who signed himself “yor luving grandson.
In his way he went as directly and dauntingly for what he wanted as the old man had always done, and would tread down whoever stood in his way with as little compunction.