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Word Meanings - INFORMIDABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. "Foe not informidable." Milton.

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  • DREADNOUGHT
    1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by
  • FEARFULNESS
    The state of being fearful.
  • FEARER
    One who fars. Sir P. Sidney.
  • DREADFUL
    1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. "With dreadful heart." Chaucer. 2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth. 3.
  • FEAR
    A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion. Spenser.
  • DREADFULNESS
    The quality of being dreadful.
  • INFORMIDABLE
    Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. "Foe not informidable." Milton.
  • FEARLESS
    Free from fear. Syn. -- Bold; courageous; interpid; valor -- Fear"less*ly, adv. -- Fera"less*ness, n.
  • FEARFULLY
    In a fearful manner.
  • FEARSOME
    . Easily frightened; timid; timorous. "A silly fearsome thing." B. Taylor (more info) 1. Frightful; causing fear "This fearsome wind." Sir W. Scott
  • DREADABLE
    Worthy of being dreaded.
  • FEARFUL
    1. Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power. Bp. Warburton. 2. inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. What man is there that is fearful
  • DREAD
    To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension. When at length the moment dreaded through so many years came close, the dark cloud passed away from Johnson's mind. Macaulay.
  • DREADNAUGHT
    1. A fearless person. 2. Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.
  • FORMIDABLE
    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
  • MILTONIAN
    Miltonic. Lowell.
  • FEARNAUGHT
    1. A fearless person. 2. A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm garment.
  • DREADLESSNESS
    Freedom from dread.
  • DREADLESS
    1. Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart. "The dreadless angel." Milton. 2. Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure. " safe in his dreadless den." Spenser.
  • MILTONIC
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
  • AFEARD
    Afraid. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises. Shak. (more info) a- + fran to frighten.
  • AFFEAR
    To frighten. Spenser.
  • HAMILTON PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
  • SUPERDREADNOUGHT
    See ABOVE

 

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