01 a. Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming.
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Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming.“They seemed to fear the formodable sight.” — Dryden.“I swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when you see so many pages behind.” — Drydn.