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Chilling vs Formidable - What's the difference?

chilling | formidable |

As adjectives the difference between chilling and formidable

is that chilling is becoming cold while formidable is causing fear, dread, awe or admiration as a result of size, strength, or some other impressive quality; commanding respect; causing wonder or astonishment.

As a verb chilling

is .

As a noun chilling

is the act by which something is chilled.

chilling

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Becoming cold.
  • * 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 22:
    • As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.
  • Causing cold.
  • Causing mild fear.
    • It was a chilling story, but the children enjoyed it
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
    • Displaying a sturdy professionalism throughout that stops just short of artistry, director Gary Ross, who co-scripted with Collins and Billy Ray, does his strongest work in the early scenes, which set up the stakes with chilling efficiency.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * bone-chilling

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is chilled.
  • * 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
    • To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires

    formidable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • causing fear, dread, awe or admiration as a result of size, strength, or some other impressive quality; commanding respect; causing wonder or astonishment
  • difficult to defeat or overcome
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 9 , author=John Percy , title=Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report , work=the Telegraph citation , page= , passage=Holloway has unfinished business in the Premier League after relegation last year and he will make a swift return if he can overcome West Ham a week on Saturday. Sam Allardyce, the West Ham manager, will be acutely aware that when the stakes are high, Blackpool are simply formidable .}}