dauntsome

English

Etymology

From daunt +‎ -some.

Adjective

dauntsome (comparative more dauntsome, superlative most dauntsome)

  1. Tending to daunt or intimidate.
    • 1904, Marie Corelli, God's Good Man, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:
      Miss Maryllia was just as peart and dauntsome when she was her age.
    • 1919, American Lutheran Survey: Volumes 11-12, Lutheran Survey Publishing Company, page 28:
      At the foot of this dauntsome grind is the famous Grimsel Hospice, sold eighteen years ago to a captain of the tourist industry, after being owned and worked by the commune of Hasli for the respectable term of 520 years.
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