If a task is daunting, it's intimidating or overwhelming in a way that makes you not even want to try to do it. Daunting is the progressive or continuous tense (the -ing form) of the verb daunt, meaning to intimidate or discourage. But daunting is commonly used as an adjective.
How do you use daunting in a sentence?
Daunting sentence example
- As our activities grew, the task became more daunting . ...
- He sat, petting her, thinking how unreal this all seemed, but at the same time celebrated that they had overcome their most daunting hardship. ...
- The final, however, was a more daunting prospect.
Can someone be daunting?
Or weasel out of it by playing sick. Often used in the phrases “daunting prospect” and “daunting task,” daunting describes something that you are not looking forward to doing. Having to fill out complicated tax forms every year is a daunting task for many people.
