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intimidatingadjective causing fearthe school's seniors faced the intimidating prospect of the college entrance exams alarming, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, redoubtable, scary, shocking, spine-chilling, terrible, terrifying daunting, demoralizing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, startling, threatening, troubling, trying, unnervingbone-chilling, creepy, eerie(also eery), weirdappalling, atrocious, awful, grisly, gruesome(also grewsome), hideous, horrid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarish calming, comforting, consoling, inviting, lulling, pacifying, quieting, reassuring, relaxing, soothing, tranquilizing(also tranquillizing)nonintimidating, nonthreatening harsh and threatening in manner or appearancean intimidating bodyguard keeping the fans away from the pop star austere, dour, fierce, flinty, forbidding, grim, gruff, lowering(also louring), rough, rugged, severe, stark, steely, stern, ungentle bleak, cold, hostile, inhospitable, inimical, unfriendly, unsympatheticadamant, bound, determined, firm, intent, purposeful, resolute, resolved, steadfast, unflinchingfixed, hard, hardened, hardheaded, immovable, implacable, inflexible, ironhanded, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, rigid, self-willed, set, stiff, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful(or wilful)immutable, unchangeableblack, cheerless, dark, gloomy, glum, joyless, melancholic, moody, morose, sulky, sullen, surlybrooding, grave, humorless, melancholy, serious, sober, sobersided, solemn, somber(or sombre), staid, unsmiling, weighty benign, benignant, gentle, mild, nonintimidating, tender bland, meek, mellow, soft, soothingeasy, quiet, tranquilagreeable, bright, cheerful, inviting, pleasant, pleasing, sweetglad, happy, lighthearted, merry, mirthful, sunnyfeatherbrained, flighty, frivolous, giddy, goofy, harebrained, light-headed, playful, scatterbrained, silly intimidatingverbpresent participle of intimidateto make timid or fearful by or as if by threatsrefusing to be intimidated by the manager's harsh stare, I demanded my money back blackjacking, bogarting, browbeating, bulldozing, bullying, bullyragging(also ballyragging), cowing, hectoring, mau-mauing, strong-arming blustering, trash-talkingaffrighting, alarming(also alaruming), frightening, horrifying, scaring, shocking, spooking, startling, terrifyingmenacing, terrorizing, threateningbadgering, harassing, houndingbludgeoning, coercing, compelling, constraining, dragooning, forcing, making, obliging, pressing, pressuring, pushing arounddemoralizing, psyching (out), unmanning, unnervingdiscomposing, disconcerting, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, upsetting picking on cheering, comforting, consoling, reassuring, solacing, soothingemboldening, encouraging, heartening, steelingconvincing, persuading in 1748 |