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Synonyms for daunting

discouraging through fear

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Many other sites would be ideal for offering to the marketplace were the process not so daunting to buyers and impossible to budget.
"It's daunting but anything can happen in football," he said last night.
"It was quite daunting at the beginning, playing a role in which so many have acted before, but it was a chance I grabbed with both hands.
Part of her healing involves delivering a letter to John Lennon that her mother never sent; however, only after she finds her mother's battered Gibson in the garage rafters and seeks out Teri Seeger, the luthier who agrees to repair the guitar, does Star begin the daunting task of rebuilding the Gibson, and herself, from the inside out.
Ford deals with topics as difficult as granularity, quantum numbers, superposition, entanglement, and the uncertainty principle, but he uses explanations and examples that make these concepts easy to understand and quantum weirdness far less daunting. HUP, 2004, 270 p., b&w photos/illus., hardcover, $24.95.
``It is a bit daunting because everyone looks up to the All Blacks,'' saidEvans.
Many people want to get into the investing game but find the minimum requirements for mutual funds daunting. The best way around these minimums is dollar cost averaging, a method of accumulating assets by setting aside a fixed amount of money in securities at set intervals.
The proposal is a daunting one, but the result not as fearsome as the dimensions suggest.
SEAN ST LEDGER admits it will be "daunting" trying to fire Leicester City back into the Premier League.
His story is full of adventure and spectacle, as well as insight into the traditional hunters and fishers who are new transitioning from Soviet oppression into a daunting 21st-century world.
Science is sometimes daunting for YAs, so Bryson's book is welcome because it simplifies the complex and makes science accessible.
Everton's trip to Newcastle is undoubtedly daunting, but not quite as daunting as it might have been .
Ellington may have encountered some daunting personal problems--and the author mentions a few in passing--but when it came to musical obstacles, he gracefully hurdled them all.
Because it's difficult to precisely regulate blood levels of arsenic in patients, these results present daunting obstacles to expanding medical uses of the substance, says Barchowsky.
The science is daunting and detailed, appropriate for savvy older teens and adults.