Intimidating

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Intimidate \In*tim"i*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Intimidated};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Intimidating}.] [LL. intimidatus, p. p. of
     intimidare to frighten; pref. in- in + timidus fearful,
     timid: cf. F. intimider. See {Timid}.]
     To make timid or fearful; to inspire of affect with fear; to
     deter, as by threats; to dishearten; to abash.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           Now guilt, once harbored in the conscious breast,
           Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. --Johnson.
  
     Syn: To dishearten; dispirit; abash; deter; frighten;
          terrify; daunt; cow.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  intimidating \intimidating\ adj.
     discouraging; inhibiting; deterring. Opposite of
     {encouraging}.
  
     Syn: daunting.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  intimidating
       adj : discouraging through fear [syn: {daunting}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "intimidating":
     abusive, admonitory, bludgeoning, blustering, browbeating,
     bulldozing, bullying, cautionary, comminatory, denunciatory,
     deterrent, discouraging, disinclining, dissuading, dissuasive,
     expostulatory, fear-inspiring, foreboding, hectoring, imminent,
     lowering, menacing, minacious, minatory, monitory, ominous,
     terroristic, terrorizing, threatening, threatful