redoubtable
Meanings
Plural: redoubtables
Adjective Satellite
- inspiring fear; ; - G.H.Johnston
- "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"
- worthy of respect or honor
- "born of a redoubtable family"
Adj
- Especially of a person.
- Eliciting respect; awe-inspiring, imposing.
- Especially of a person.
- Eliciting dread or fear; appalling, formidable.
Noun
- A person who elicits respect.
- A person who elicits dread or fear; a formidable person.
Origin / Etymology
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English redoutable (“worthy of honour, venerable; frightening, terrible”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman redoutable and Middle French redoutable, redoubtable, from Old French redotable (modern French redoutable), from redoter (“to fear”) (whence Middle French redoubter, redouter, French redouter) + -able (suffix meaning ‘deserving of, worthy of’). Redoter is derived from re- (intensifying prefix) + doter (“to doubt; to fear”) (from Latin dubitō (“to doubt, be uncertain, waver in opinion”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwi- (“apart, asunder; two”) + *bʰuH- (“to appear; to be; to become; to grow”), in the sense of being in two minds).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
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Scrabble Score: 16
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