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Daunting vs Intense - What's the difference?

daunting | intense |

As adjectives the difference between daunting and intense

is that daunting is discouraging, inspiring fear while intense is strained; tightly drawn.

As a verb daunting

is present participle of lang=en.

daunting

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • discouraging, inspiring fear
  • overwhelming, intimidatingly impressive
  • intense

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Strained; tightly drawn.
  • Strict, very close or earnest.
  • Extreme in degree; excessive.
  • Extreme in size or strength.
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  • , title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages.}}
  • Stressful and tiring.
  • Very severe.
  • Anagrams

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