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intimidatingly adverb uk /ɪnˈtɪm.ɪ.deɪ.tɪŋ.li/ us /ɪnˈtɪm.ə.deɪ.t̬ɪŋ.li/ in a way that makes you feel frightened or nervous: They are the undisputed world champions, intimidatingly strong in every way. He leered intimidatingly at the other guy, who said nothing. He is soft spoken, intimidatingly erudite, and game for discussing any subject you care to choose. Her husband was advancing down the path in an intimidatingly purposeful way. Four lads were strung out intimidatingly across my path. The books arrived in eight intimidatingly large crates, and took over an entire room in my house. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Describing things that cause fear awesome awesomely awesomeness bloodcurdling chilling fearsome fearsomely frightening frighteningly greasily imposingly intimidating scarifying scarifyingly scarily spooky terrifying terrifyingly traumatic traumatically |