redoubtable
Speech parts
1. redoubtable - Adjective
2. redoubtable - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque.
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the formidable prospect of major surgery
a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic
something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall
born of a redoubtable family
It has greatly compounded its error by suspending the redoubtable Gita Sahgal for the crime of going public with her concerns.
And over at the Orphan Farm, the redoubtable Mma Potakwani, has been fired for disagreeing with a new proposal to build a shared dining room using the funds from a sizeable donation.