as in frustrating
to lessen the courage or confidence of
the raging inferno didn't daunt the firefighters for a moment
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Recent Examples of daunting
Preston Fore, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
But solving the city’s enrollment challenge by trying to attract families to neighborhood schools is a daunting and uncertain task.
—Mila Koumpilova, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2025
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Sep. 2025
The climate crisis is urgent and can feel daunting at times, but the solutions are within reach and many exist right now.
—Adam Gardner, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
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Verb
Gen Z is staring up from the bottom of the corporate ladder, but with AI job automation and economic headwinds, the prospect of landing a job—let alone climbing the greasy pole—is more daunting than ever.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
But solving the city’s enrollment challenge by trying to attract families to neighborhood schools is a daunting and uncertain task.
—Mila Koumpilova, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
At first, the idea was daunting, TePaa said.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Sep. 2025
The climate crisis is urgent and can feel daunting at times, but the solutions are within reach and many exist right now.
—Adam Gardner, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for daunting
Verb
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As far as Young goes, the Week 1 performance was discouraging.—
Mike Kaye
September 10,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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Speaker Johnson is giving the high ground to the Democrats by discouraging Thomas Massie's petition.—
Nick Mordowanec,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Ponder the grocery categories tracked by local CPIs to see which California supermarket aisles are most troublesome to your household’s food budget.—
Jonathan Lansner,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
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For Wild fans, one more potentially troublesome factor iis the history of moves like that one.—
Jess Myers,
Twin Cities,
13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But the drum sound wasn’t nearly as dismaying as the studio’s piano, which kept slipping out of tune.—
Peter Ames Carlin,
Rolling Stone,
13 Aug. 2025
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With a six-game deficit in the American League wild card hunt entering play on Monday, the Angels may be only a few series away from repeating their dismaying playbook from 2023.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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For some—for me—the experience of certain kinds of anxiety has a disconcerting synesthetic quality.—
Scott Stossel,
The Atlantic,
9 Sep. 2025
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The disconcerting answer is that nobody knows.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Seeing that textbook go to waste felt very disheartening.—
Sami Khan,
Mercury News,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Some folks harbor a dispiriting conviction that governments are unable to handle the simplest task.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
22 Aug. 2025
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Let’s establish all of that up front after the Carolina Panthers’ dispiriting, 20-3 exhibition loss at Houston Saturday.—
Scott Fowler,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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To have all that flipped on its side, turned around 180 degrees and made to seem dark and sinister, that's very demoralizing and heartbreaking.—
Michal Ruprecht,
NPR,
10 Sep. 2025
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Watching what’s unfolding around us can be demoralizing.—
Stacey Abrams,
Time,
28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Either way, a wrist injury would help explain the rather troubling start for Thomas, who was profiled to be one of the best wide receivers in all of football coming into the 2025 season.—
Reice Shipley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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Regardless of which direction the program goes at Head Coach, or if Iamaleava will stay for his junior season, the fact that UCLA is already looking towards next year in Week 3 is troubling enough.—
Tyler Small,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Daunting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daunting. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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