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词汇 dauntingly
释义 dauntingly
adverb
uk /ˈdɔːn.tɪŋ.li/ us /ˈdɑːn.t̬ɪŋ.li/
in a way that makes you feel slightly frightened or worried about your ability to achieve something:
Her most recent book is a dauntingly enormous epic of nearly 700 pages.
The wine list offers a good range that's not dauntingly expensive.
The system is often dauntingly difficult for asylum seekers to understand.
The mountain looked just as dauntingly high as it had the previous day.
At the start of the course, writing an essay seems a dauntingly difficult task.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Discouraging and putting off
aversive
dampen someone's enthusiasm
dampen someone's spirits
dampener on something
daunt
deterrence
deterrent
discourage
discouragement
discouraging
disheartening
dishearteningly
disincentive
emasculate
emasculation
pour/throw cold water on somethingidiom
spoke
take the wind out of someone's sailsidiom
throw cold water on somethingidiom
unencouraging

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