daunting

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɔːntɪŋ/    美 /ˈdɔntɪŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. gerund of daunt.; The act of discouraging or intimidating; discouragement, intimidation.
    — Face to face with the true mountains, / I stood silently and still; / Drawing strength for fancy's dauntings, / From the air about the hill, / And from Nature's open mercies, and most debonaire goodwill.
  2. gerund of daunt.; The act of defeating, overcoming, or overwhelming.
    — Then came in two by two, other Troopes, whoſe onſets, and ouer-throwes, honours, and diſgraces, darings, and dauntings, merit an ample Chronicle, rather than an Abſtract; [...]
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of daunt form-of,gerund,participle,present
形容词 adj.
  1. Discouraging; inspiring fear.
    — Deathes daunting dart where so his buffet lights, / Shall shape no change within my friendly corse: / But dead or liue, in heauen, in earth, in hell, / I wilbe thine where so my carkase dwell.
  2. Intimidatingly impressive; awe-inspiring, overwhelming.
    — [W]iſdome, much more all the excellencies of this Spirit) makes a mans face to ſhine; as the light of a Lanterne puts a luſtre upon the Lanterne, ſo the brightneſſe of theſe ſpirits puts a luſtre upon the men in whom they are. Men of ſuch ſpirts^([sic – meaning ſpirits]) as theſe are, have a daunting preſence in the eyes of thoſe who behold them.
  3. Appearing to be difficult; challenging.
    — It was a daunting task, but it was accomplished with some forward planning.

词形变化

more daunting comparative most daunting superlative dauntings plural

词汇关系

衍生词
dauntingly dauntingness undaunting undauntingly
相关词
daunt dauntedly daunter dauntless dauntlessly undauntable undaunted undauntedly undauntedness

词源

词源 1
From daunt + -ing.
词源 2
From daunt + -ing.
词源 3
From daunt + -ing.
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