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Fearsome vs Daunting - What's the difference?

fearsome | daunting |

As adjectives the difference between fearsome and daunting

is that fearsome is frightening, especially in appearance while daunting is discouraging, inspiring fear.

As a verb daunting is

present participle of lang=en.

fearsome

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • frightening, especially in appearance.
  • (rare, or, archaic) fearful, frightened

    • Related terms

    * fear * fearful

    daunting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

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

    • Related terms

    * dauntingly * dauntless