redoubtable
/rɪˈdaʊtəb(ə)l
/adjective often humorous
(Of a person) formidable, especially as an opponent: he was a redoubtable debater the redoubtable ladies...
- A sportsman to his fingertips, the redoubtable John Joe has left many of us with some tremendous memories of his hurling and footballing feats.
- Sure, they are redoubtable opponents, but brawny, one-dimensional teams deficient in natural ability will not seriously challenge the world's best.
- ‘If that was the case then they clearly reckoned without Mrs Hiley, a redoubtable lady who has stuck to her guns throughout,’ he said.
Synonyms
formidable, awe-inspiring, fearsome, daunting, alarming;
impressive, commanding, tremendous, indomitable, invincible, resolute, doughty, mighty, strong, powerful
Derivatives
redoubtably
- But in the Sparta corner was, most redoubtably if less predictably, the equally progressive thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French redoutable, from redouter 'to fear', from re- (expressing intensive force) + douter 'to doubt'.
- determination
- determinative
- determine
- determined
- determinedly
- determinedness
- determiner
- determining
- determinism
- determinist
- deterministic
- deterministically
- deterrence
- deterrent
- deterritorialization
- deterritorialize
- detest
- miscontented
- miscontentment
- misconvert
- misconvey
- miscook
- miscopy
- miscorrect
- miscorrection