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Look up: formidable

  1. formidable
    [adj] - extremely impressive in strength or excellence 2. [adj] - inspiring fear
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Formidable
    For'mi·da·ble adjective [ Latin formidabilis , from formidare to fear, dread: confer French 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 fo ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/64

  3. formidable
    redoubtable adjective inspiring fear; `the formidable prospect of major surgery`; `a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic`- G.H.Johnston; `something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  4. Formidable
    `Formidable` is the soundtrack to the show performed at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, France by American singer La Toya Jackson. Only 3,000 copies were pressed and it has become one of the most sought-after albums by La Toya's fans. La Toya was the main attraction at the Moulin Rouge for four months, at which point she broke her contract and was fined $550,000 by the owners of Moulin Rouge.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formidable

  5. Formidable
    • (a.) Exciting fear or apprehension; impressing dread; adapted to excite fear and deter from approach, encounter, or undertaking; alarming.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. Formidable
    (from the article `World War II`) ...including the battleships Warspite, Valiant, and Barham and the aircraft carrier Formidable, likewise with cruisers and destroyers, were sent to ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/f/48

  7. formidable
    formidable 1. Difficult to deal with or to overcome; such as, preparing for war is a formidable task. 2. Inspiring respect or wonder because of size, strength, or ability: 'She exhibited a formidable display of skill as she worked with her computer.' 3. Causing fear, dread, or alarm.
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf


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23 November 2009

This day in history:
At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey's most famous Time Lord. From the very first - William Hartnell in 1963 - to the very last - Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie - the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound. read more

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