daunting
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definition
verb
some people are daunted by technology
make (someone) feel intimidated or apprehensive.
adjective
a daunting task
seeming difficult to deal with in anticipation; intimidating.
example
Going to university is a 'daunting' prospect for many of us currently studying at A-level.
Handling the sheer volume of such server-generated virus detected messages can be a 'daunting' task.
Was it a 'daunting' task to make a film about the life of someone who was still very much alive?
On top of this, a Shakespeare monologue or script had to be learnt - a 'daunting' prospect indeed.
Undergoing major organ transplantation is a 'daunting' prospect for anyone.
Standing motionless for hours on end may seem like a 'daunting' task to most people, but they consider it fun.
Stepping on court against a four-year-old shouldn't be a 'daunting' prospect.
Don't let yourself be put off, however, by the 'daunting' prospect of a 79-mile walk.
The sight of the massive queue must have been 'daunting' , but you dealt with the situation magnificently.
She's packed enough clothes for everyone so that she won't be faced with the 'daunting' task of doing the laundry.
Mrs Britton, 32, said that starting a pub from scratch is a 'daunting' task but well worth the hard work.
Starting your own business at the tender age of 23 would seem a 'daunting' task for most people.
To follow in her footsteps must be a 'daunting' prospect for any other actor or singer.
When Clark was placed with the team, working with a chief superintendent was quite a 'daunting' prospect.
Choosing just 75 drawings from the collection presented Clayton with a 'daunting' task.
He faces the 'daunting' prospect of up to three different exams in one day.
If you haven't been in a gym since school, joining can be a 'daunting' prospect.
For our police to be both effective and humane is a 'daunting' task.
Making a fresh start once a divorce is finalised will be a 'daunting' prospect.
It is a 'daunting' task for any Government to ensure the health of the citizens.
This is a 'dauntingly' monumental volume, and it shouldn't be read in one gulp.
Despite her shorts and tee shirt she seemed 'dauntingly' Edwardian and thick-skirtish.
It's a valid, though 'dauntingly' huge question, and I'll try to begin to answer it here with reference to one subject which has been in my mind recently.
There's everything here from simple, sometimes amusing pieces, to more 'dauntingly' experimental and harmonically challenging works.
With or without Britain's contribution, the task of cleaning up Russia's far north is 'dauntingly' immense.
Roughly 150,000 titles are published each year in the U.S. Without the imprimatur and promotional budget of a major publishing house, the odds of breaking through are 'dauntingly' slim.
The book is both 'dauntingly' far-reaching in scope and intensely personal: it moves from political theory to cultural analysis to diaristic history in around 350 quick-moving pages.
From the outside it appeared 'dauntingly' big and difficult to navigate through; however, this was not the case.
To be the first foreigner to complete the 'dauntingly' long and dangerous journey along the entire Brahmaputra river is quite an accolade.
Taken as a whole, the criticism produced by the Men of Letters throughout the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century was 'dauntingly' didactic.
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