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# daunted

adjective (past form of the verb daunt: daunt, daunts, daunted, daunting)

«daunted» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Daunted means frightened or put off by something big or hard, so that you lose heart. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daunted/#m1)
2. «Nothing daunted» means not put off at all, still brave and ready. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daunted/#m2)

### In the lessons

in the tales, a hero is not frightened by a giant, a dragon or a hard task; «nothing daunted» means he went on bravely anyway

### Examples

- The steep hill daunted the little boy, but he kept climbing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daunted/#x1)
- Jack was not daunted by the giant. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daunted/#x2)
- Nothing daunted, the girl stepped forward. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daunted/#x3)
- I was daunted by the long maths test, but I tried every question. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daunted/#x4)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «daunted» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daunted/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«daunted» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/daunted.html) on Mova free.