as in discouraging
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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
Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2025
Their manager, Fulvio Bernardini, who had won the title with Fiorentina in 1956, faced a daunting task.
—Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Scott White, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
This means navigating legal, financial, and operational hurdles is daunting without expert guidance.
—Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
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Creating and maintaining a good-looking yard is one of the most daunting aspects of homeownership.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2025
Their manager, Fulvio Bernardini, who had won the title with Fiorentina in 1956, faced a daunting task.
—Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
For today's high school graduates, the path to true independence can seem daunting.
—Scott White, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
This means navigating legal, financial, and operational hurdles is daunting without expert guidance.
—Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for daunting
Verb
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Actions by officials in the two countries are also discouraging Canadian tourists from looking south.—
Skyler Swisher,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 Apr. 2025
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Good air circulation will allow leaves and stems to dry out, discouraging disease.—
Beth Botts,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Algorithms are nothing new for dating apps, but reducing the human element in communications seems a little troublesome.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
21 Apr. 2025
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María Paz Peñaloza Cabrera, 31, went to the doctor’s Astoria home March 28 to get troublesome butt implants removed, authorities say.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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For the Congolese government, the ineffective Western responses follow a dismaying pattern.—
Michela Wrong,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Mar. 2025
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Americans, and a dismaying number of politicians, keep crying for a crackdown on crimes that aren’t happening.—
F.K. Plous,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Trump imperils Harvard’s nonprofit status Don Ingber, a renowned biologist at Harvard, woke up this week to a troubling email.—
Zachary Schermele,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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From around 2006 to 2010, a series of major business downturns, including a bankruptcy filing and several key lawsuits, led Kinkade into a downward spiral of troubling public behavior and substance abuse.—
Gary Goldstein,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The voice of Pope Francis has been such a voice—gentle, disarming, and at times, unsettling.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Apr. 2025
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These experiments busted the urban myth but also pointed to a the truth about how companies like Facebook sometimes serve up such disturbingly accurate advertisements that is much more complex, and unsettling.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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After the frightening threat, the man suddenly ran off in an unknown direction.—
Roni Jacobson,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2025
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Serena Joy Waterford is among the most frightening, dead-hearted women ever written for the small screen.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Bond traders in 2025: The bond market sell-off is more worrisome than the one in stocks.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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Given that, over the course of the show, White has written exactly one Black main character (though she’s appeared twice), that might be worrisome.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Jack, the first Black world heavyweight champion who is considered one of the most important boxers of all time, was active during the Jim Crow era, upsetting white supremacists with his success and his marriages to white women.—
Yinka Elujoba,
Vulture,
25 Apr. 2025
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How upsetting is this to people who are national security professionals?—
Steve Inskeep,
NPR,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Daunting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/daunting. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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