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形容詞

dauntsome (comparative more dauntsome, superlative most dauntsome)

1. Tending to daunt or intimidate.
   • 1904, Marie Corelli, God's Good Man, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:

     Miss Maryllia was just as peart and dauntsome when she was her age.

   • 1919, American Lutheran Survey: Volumes 11-12, Lutheran Survey Publishing Company, page 28:

     At the foot of this dauntsome grind is the famous Grimsel Hospice, sold eighteen years ago to a captain of the tourist industry, after being owned and worked by the commune of Hasli for the respectable term of 520 years.