Definition of Formidable
	Formidable Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming. Related Definitions: Adapted, Alarming, And, Apprehension, Approach, Deter, Dread, Encounter, Excite, Exciting, Fear, From, Impressing, Or, To, Undertaking

Formidable Quotations The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance. Maya Angelou Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. Ronald Reagan Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. George Washington A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. Nelson Mandela The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. Thomas Paine In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. Alexis de Tocqueville No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. Charles M. Schulz No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. Benjamin Disraeli When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem. Percy Bysshe Shelley Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). James Thurber

Formidable Translations formidable in Dutch is buitengewoon formidable in French is atroce, extraordinaire formidable in German is furchtbar formidable in Italian is opimo formidable in Norwegian is fryktinngytende, imponerende formidable in Spanish is fecundo, temible