Word Meanings - INFORMIDABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. "Foe not informidable." Milton.

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• DREADNOUGHT
  1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by
• FEARFULNESS
  The state of being fearful.
• FEARER
  One who fars. Sir P. Sidney.
• DREADFUL
  1. Full of dread or terror; fearful. "With dreadful heart." Chaucer. 2. Inspiring dread; impressing great fear; fearful; terrible; as, a dreadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth. 3.
• FEAR
  A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion. Spenser.
• DREADFULNESS
  The quality of being dreadful.
• INFORMIDABLE
  Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. "Foe not informidable." Milton.
• FEARLESS
  Free from fear. Syn. -- Bold; courageous; interpid; valor -- Fear"less*ly, adv. -- Fera"less*ness, n.
• FEARFULLY
  In a fearful manner.
• FEARSOME
  . Easily frightened; timid; timorous. "A silly fearsome thing." B. Taylor (more info) 1. Frightful; causing fear "This fearsome wind." Sir W. Scott
• DREADABLE
  Worthy of being dreaded.
• FEARFUL
  1. Full of fera, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened. Anxious amidst all their success, and fearful amidat all their power. Bp. Warburton. 2. inclined to fear; easily frightened; without courage; timid. What man is there that is fearful
• DREAD
  To fear in a great degree; to regard, or look forward to, with terrific apprehension. When at length the moment dreaded through so many years came close, the dark cloud passed away from Johnson's mind. Macaulay.
• DREADNAUGHT
  1. A fearless person. 2. Hence: A garment made of very thick cloth, that can defend against storm and cold; also, the cloth itself; fearnaught.
• FORMIDABLE
  Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming. They seemed to fear the formodable sight. Dryden. I swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• FEARNAUGHT
  1. A fearless person. 2. A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm garment.
• DREADLESSNESS
  Freedom from dread.
• DREADLESS
  1. Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart. "The dreadless angel." Milton. 2. Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure. " safe in his dreadless den." Spenser.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• AFEARD
  Afraid. Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises. Shak. (more info) a- + fran to frighten.
• AFFEAR
  To frighten. Spenser.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• SUPERDREADNOUGHT
  See ABOVE