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# daunted

«daunted» in Mova's school dictionary: **frightened or put off by something big or hard, so that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) Daunted means frightened or put off by something big or hard, so that you lose heart. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daunted/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daunted/#x1)
- Jack was not daunted by the giant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daunted/#x2)
- Nothing daunted, the girl stepped forward. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daunted/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «daunted» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/daunted/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.