FORM'IDABLE, a. [L. formidabilis, from formido, fear.]
Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter or undertaking. It expresses less than terrible, terrific, tremendous, horrible, and frightful.
They See med to fear the formidable sight.
I swell my preface into a volume, and make it formidable, when you See So many pages behind.
