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 →

2) «Nothing daunted» means not put off at all, still brave and ready. tree →

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 →
• Jack was not daunted by the giant. tree →
• Nothing daunted, the girl stepped forward. tree →
• I was daunted by the long maths test, but I tried every question. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «daunted» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.