Usually means: Intimidatingly difficult to deal with.
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  1. dauntingly: Merriam-Webster
  2. dauntingly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dauntingly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dauntingly: Rhymezone
  5. dauntingly: FreeDictionary.org
  6. dauntingly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  7. dauntingly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. dauntingly: Vocabulary.com
  9. dauntingly: Wordnik
  10. dauntingly: Wiktionary
  11. dauntingly: Dictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dauntingly: Legal dictionary

(Note: See daunt as well.)

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▸ adverb:  In a daunting manner.

Similar:
dauntedly, intimidatingly, undauntingly, dauntlessly, terrifyingly, imposingly, alarmingly, menacingly, hauntingly, portentously, more...

Opposite:
reassuringly, comfortingly, encouragingly

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Similar:
dauntedly, intimidatingly, undauntingly, dauntlessly, terrifyingly, imposingly, alarmingly, menacingly, hauntingly, portentously, more...

Opposite:
reassuringly, comfortingly, encouragingly



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