Tra từ formidable - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

for‧mi‧da‧ble/ˈfɔːmədəbəl, ˈfɔːmɪdəbəl, fəˈmɪd- $ ˈfɔːr-/ adjective
[date : 1300-1400; Language : Latin; Origin : formidabilis, from formido 'fear']
1. very powerful or impressive, and often frightening:
　 ▪ The building is grey, formidable, not at all picturesque.
　 ▪ The new range of computers have formidable processing power.

2. difficult to deal with and needing a lot of effort or skill
formidable task/challenge
　 ▪ the formidable task of local government reorganization

—formidably adverb

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a formidable enemy (=a very powerful enemy)
▪ The North Vietnamese army proved to be a formidable enemy.
a formidable obstacle (=one that makes it very difficult to achieve something)
▪ There are formidable obstacles to legal reform.
a formidable opponent (=a very strong opponent)
▪ In debate, he was a formidable opponent.
a formidable reputation (=one that makes people have a lot of respect for someone or something, or be afraid of them)
▪ After the meeting, I understood why he had such a formidable reputation.
a formidable/daunting task (=very difficult)
▪ Achieving these targets will be a formidable task.
a formidable/daunting/tough challenge (=a very difficult one)
▪ How to deal with waste is a daunting challenge for the west.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
as
▪ Only two years established, barely thirty-three years old, and already he had a reputation as formidable as his father's.
▪ He did, in fact, look every bit as formidable in his sleep as he did when awake.
▪ So Abelard's theory seems to present me with a challenge as formidable as climbing Mount Everest.
more
▪ Something else, wilder, uninhibited, even more formidable than her mind, was completely in charge.
▪ His campaign apparatus looks more formidable than his numbers in various polls seem to show.
▪ Wings bigger and blacker and more formidable than any he had yet seen.
▪ In the House, the task is more formidable.
▪ He looked taller, more formidable, more patrician.
▪ In a curious way he seemed more formidable than before.
▪ He looked somehow smarter and more formidable now, than at the funeral.
▪ Alone with Damian Flint Rachel found him even more formidable than he had at first appeared.
most
▪ And the most formidable threats to reproductive destiny that a human individual faces come from other human individuals.
▪ A distillation of the riches of the existing law would be a most formidable task.
▪ To begin with, these forces have created the most formidable barrier to animal movement on earth.
▪ Has he signed up one of the most formidable Arabs to ride for his expanding pro team?
▪ Don't you worry, some of the women I've met have proved to be the most formidable of foes.
▪ She was above all a most formidable female.
▪ Denbighshire have matched Flintshire's show of strength by naming their most formidable line-up in pursuit of the coveted last-four ticket.
so
▪ Canny trading played a big part in making the Orioles so formidable.
NOUN
barrier
▪ To begin with, these forces have created the most formidable barrier to animal movement on earth.
▪ Whether clipped into shape or left natural, barberry is a formidable barrier thanks to its dense foliage and profusion of thorns.
▪ Other status groups erect less formidable barriers to entry.
challenge
▪ All this proved a formidable challenge to our sweeper, a delightful Rajasthani lady named Murti.
▪ The formidable challenge for progressive bishops and theologians who dominated the Second Vatican Council was to formulate a compelling alternative.
▪ Working out an effective strategy to control it rather than let it control us is a formidable challenge.
▪ Chess posed a formidable challenge for computer scientists.
▪ At their most fully developed business information systems provide a formidable challenge to the creativity of archivists and historians alike.
enemy
▪ Damp is a formidable enemy and too much warmth as great a one, especially where leather bindings are concerned.
▪ When legislation touches freedom of thought and freedom of speech, such a tendency is a formidable enemy of the free spirit.
▪ To scoff at or curse the little men was to court disaster, for they made formidable enemies.
force
▪ Thereafter it evolved rapidly into a formidable force.
▪ A coalition of the young and old might, from even the most tentative beginnings, grow into a formidable force.
▪ There he was a formidable force.
▪ Together they represented a formidable force, but the big question was whether they could work together.
▪ MacArthur's guard was a formidable force.
obstacle
▪ When it came to assembling facts and details, the system was a formidable obstacle.
▪ To be sure, formidable obstacles lie ahead for advocates of a merger.
▪ Selim had formidable obstacles to overcome, however, in modernising the archaic structure of the Ottoman empire.
▪ The stairs were a formidable obstacle to son Michael, also, since we lived in a bungalow.
▪ The Pennines presented the most formidable obstacles of all to the canals, but even they were successfully overcome.
opponent
▪ The character who can maintain such an idea is a formidable opponent to established order.
▪ A formidable opponent, I suspect.
▪ She had no vision of money as an independent power, or a formidable opponent.
▪ Durable Free State prop Piet Bester has proved a technically formidable opponent.
problem
▪ It is a formidable problem of optimisation but it is, at least, a potential solution.
▪ For example, the modelling of the corporate sector, particularly allowing for imperfect competition, is likely to pose formidable problems.
▪ Any attack on Beaumaris would have been presented with formidable problems.
▪ Henry Livings faced formidable problems in tackling this new translation of the original Barber.
task
▪ A distillation of the riches of the existing law would be a most formidable task.
▪ The new managers obviously had their work cut out for them: learning how to be a manager was a formidable task.
▪ As with care within the household, the provision of care from outside can be a formidable task.
▪ How to tantalize our lower-middle-class students was a formidable task.
▪ Making money and turning out literate graduates are themselves formidable tasks, made none the easier when burdened with idealistic moral baggage.
team
▪ Mr Palumbo assembled a formidable team of architects and planners.
▪ Harvard has assembled a formidable team of black academics under the leadership of Henry Louis Gates, a dazzling self-publicist.
▪ They were organised and formidable teams before its formation.
woman
▪ Somehow this small but formidable woman made her way through the throng to reach her son.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Russia still has a formidable nuclear arsenal.
▪ The team faces some formidable opponents in the next week.
▪ They face the formidable task of working out a peace plan.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A coalition of the young and old might, from even the most tentative beginnings, grow into a formidable force.
▪ But modern publishers knew they needed a very formidable, sure-selling author to make the installment plan succeed.
▪ Like her husband, she has formidable political skills and impressive recuperative powers.
▪ Sheltering the village with is impressive yet formidable presence is the north face of the Eiger.
▪ The resource implications of a meaningful software acquisition programme are formidable.
▪ Thereafter it evolved rapidly into a formidable force.