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. 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 Related worddaunting |
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