Redoubtable Definition & Meaning

redoubtable
adjective
  1. inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall"
  2. worthy of respect or honor; "born of a redoubtable family"

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