daunt

The word “daunt” has 1 syllable: daunt

It's pronounced as /dɔːnt/


What is synonym and antonym for daunt?

In the thesaurus, “daunt” has 45 synonyms and 41 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for daunt along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for daunt

  • afflict
  • baffle
  • bother
  • browbeat
  • bully
  • chill
  • consternate
  • cow
  • damp
  • dampen
  • deaden
  • debilitate
  • demoralize
  • depress
  • deter
  • discourage
  • dishearten
  • dismay
  • dispirit
  • distress
  • enfeeble
  • foil
  • frighten
  • frustrate
  • horrify
  • intimidate
  • irk
  • overawe
  • put off
  • sadden
  • scare
  • shake
  • subdue
  • terrify
  • throw cold water on
  • thwart
  • trouble
  • try
  • undermine
  • unman
  • unnerve
  • vex
  • weaken
  • weigh
  • worry

Antonyms for daunt

  • aid
  • animate
  • assist
  • assure
  • boost
  • calm
  • cheer
  • comfort
  • delight
  • embolden
  • encourage
  • energize
  • enforce
  • enliven
  • excite
  • fortify
  • galvanize
  • gladden
  • hearten
  • help
  • incite
  • inspire
  • inspirit
  • invigorate
  • lift
  • make happy
  • nerve
  • please
  • provoke
  • quicken
  • rally
  • reassure
  • reenforce
  • reinforce
  • steel
  • stimulate
  • stir
  • strengthen
  • support
  • undaunt
  • urge

Meanings of daunt

  • verb
    1. To discourage, intimidate.
    2. To overwhelm.

Example Sentences

  • Despite facing numerous challenges, her determination remained unshaken, and difficulties did not daunt her.
  • The towering mountains ahead did not daunt the experienced climbers, instead, they spurred them on with excitement.
  • The prospect of public speaking used to daunt him, but after consistent practice, he now approaches it with confidence.
  • Economic setbacks may momentarily daunt us, but they also provide opportunities for growth and innovation.
  • Her unwavering resolve to pursue her dreams remained undeterred by the obstacles that sought to daunt her spirit.

On this page you'll find 86 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to daunt, such as: afflict, aid, animate, assist, assure, baffle, boost.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

damp

  • abate
  • alleviate
  • awash
  • bathe
  • bathed
  • bedew
  • benumb
  • blunt
  • burn out
  • castrate
  • cauterize
  • clamminess
  • clammy
  • close
  • cloudy
  • dampen
  • dampish
  • dampness
  • dank
  • dankness
  • daunt
  • deaden
  • debilitate
  • decrease
  • dehydrate
  • demoralize
  • desiccate
  • devitalize
  • dewy
  • diminish
  • dip
  • discourage
  • dishearten
  • dispirit
  • do in
  • douse
  • doused
  • dowse
  • dowsed
  • drain
  • drench
  • drenched
  • dripping
  • drippy
  • drizzly
  • dull
  • dunk
  • dwindle
  • ease
  • enervate
  • enfeeble
  • exhaust
  • fatigue
  • flush
  • geld
  • heavy
  • humid
  • humidify
  • humidity
  • immerge
  • immerse
  • impregnate
  • irrigate
  • irriguous
  • lave
  • lessen
  • lighten
  • lobotomize
  • lower
  • misty
  • moderate
  • moist
  • moisten
  • moistness
  • moisture
  • muffle
  • mugginess
  • muggy
  • mute
  • numb
  • oozy
  • oppressive
  • petrify
  • recede
  • reduce
  • refresh
  • rehydrate
  • remoisten
  • rinse
  • sap
  • saturate
  • saturated
  • semimoist
  • semitropic
  • semitropical
  • sluice
  • smothering
  • soak
  • soaked
  • soaking
  • sodden
  • soddenness
  • sogginess
  • soggy
  • sopping
  • soppy
  • souse
  • soused
  • steam bath
  • steamy
  • steep
  • steeped
  • stickiness
  • sticky
  • stifling
  • stuffiness
  • stuffy
  • subdue
  • subhumid
  • subside
  • subtropic
  • subtropical
  • suffocating
  • sultriness
  • sultry
  • summerlike
  • summery
  • sweltering
  • torrid
  • tropic
  • tropical
  • undermine
  • vaporous
  • wane
  • wash
  • washed
  • water
  • water-soaked
  • watered
  • waterlogged
  • watery
  • weaken
  • wear
  • wear out
  • wet
  • wetness
  • wettish

dampen

  • abate
  • allay
  • alleviate
  • bathe
  • bedew
  • benumb
  • besprinkle
  • blunt
  • burn out
  • castrate
  • cauterize
  • check
  • chill
  • cloud
  • cool
  • curb
  • dabble
  • damp
  • dash
  • daunt
  • deaden
  • debilitate
  • decrease
  • dehydrate
  • deject
  • demoralize
  • depress
  • desiccate
  • devitalize
  • diminish
  • dip
  • discourage
  • dishearten
  • dismay
  • dispirit
  • do in
  • douse
  • dowse
  • drain
  • drench
  • dull
  • dunk
  • dwindle
  • ease
  • enervate
  • enfeeble
  • exhaust
  • fatigue
  • flush
  • geld
  • humble
  • humidify
  • immerge
  • immerse
  • impregnate
  • inhibit
  • irrigate
  • lave
  • lessen
  • lighten
  • lobotomize
  • lower
  • moderate
  • moisten
  • muffle
  • mute
  • numb
  • petrify
  • recede
  • reduce
  • refresh
  • rehydrate
  • remoisten
  • restrain
  • rinse
  • sap
  • saturate
  • sluice
  • soak
  • souse
  • spray
  • sprinkle
  • steep
  • stifle
  • subdue
  • subside
  • undermine
  • wane
  • wash
  • water
  • weaken
  • wear
  • wear out
  • wet

sadden

  • afflict
  • agitate
  • ail
  • bother
  • bring one down
  • bum out
  • burden
  • cast down
  • concern
  • dampen spirits
  • dash
  • daunt
  • deject
  • demoralize
  • deplore
  • depress
  • desolate
  • discomfort
  • discompose
  • discourage
  • dishearten
  • dismay
  • dispirit
  • disquiet
  • distress
  • disturb
  • down
  • drag down
  • exercise
  • get down
  • grieve
  • make blue
  • oppress
  • perturb
  • press
  • put a damper on
  • put into a funk
  • throw cold water on
  • torment
  • torture
  • trouble
  • turn one off
  • undo
  • unhinge
  • unnerve
  • unsettle
  • upset
  • weigh down
  • worry

dash

  • abash
  • accelerate
  • afflict
  • agitate
  • ail
  • animal spirits
  • animation
  • ardor
  • arrow
  • baffle
  • balk
  • barrel
  • bathe
  • beans
  • beat
  • beat it
  • beeline
  • beetle
  • belt
  • bespatter
  • bilk
  • birr
  • bit
  • blast
  • blaze
  • blight
  • blow
  • bludgeon
  • boil
  • bolt
  • bomb
  • bother
  • bounce
  • bound
  • bowl
  • brawniness
  • breeze
  • brio
  • briskness
  • buck
  • bundle
  • burden
  • bustle
  • buzz
  • cannonball
  • canter
  • careen
  • career
  • cast
  • catapult
  • catch up
  • chagrin
  • charge
  • chase
  • chill
  • chuck
  • circumvent
  • cloud
  • concern
  • confound
  • course
  • crash
  • cudgel
  • dabble
  • dampen
  • dart
  • daunt
  • deject
  • demoralize
  • depress
  • destroy
  • disappoint
  • discomfort
  • discompose
  • discourage
  • dishearten
  • dismay
  • dispirit
  • disquiet
  • distress
  • disturb
  • douse
  • dowse
  • drench
  • drive
  • drop
  • drown
  • dynamism
  • eject
  • energy
  • esprit
  • exercise
  • fast-forward
  • fervor
  • few drops
  • fire
  • fitness
  • flavor
  • fling
  • flip
  • flit
  • flourish
  • fly
  • foil
  • force
  • gallop
  • gas
  • get a move on
  • get down
  • get on it
  • get-up-and-go
  • ginger
  • go
  • grain
  • gun
  • gusto
  • hardihood
  • hardiness
  • hare
  • haste
  • hasten
  • health
  • healthiness
  • heave
  • hie
  • highball
  • hint
  • hit
  • hook
  • hump
  • hurl
  • hurry
  • hurtle
  • huskiness
  • hustle
  • impel
  • impregnate
  • impressiveness
  • intensity
  • jauntiness
  • jet
  • jog
  • juice
  • jump
  • lap
  • lash
  • launch
  • leap
  • let fly
  • lick
  • life
  • little
  • liveliness
  • lob
  • loft
  • lope
  • lunge
  • main
  • make a run for it
  • make it snappy
  • make tracks
  • metal
  • mettle
  • might
  • motor
  • moxie
  • muscle
  • nip
  • onset
  • oomph
  • oppress
  • outpace
  • outrun
  • outstrip
  • overtake
  • panache
  • part
  • pass
  • passion
  • patter
  • peg
  • pelt
  • pep
  • perturb
  • pinch
  • pitch
  • plash
  • plunge
  • potency
  • power
  • precipitate
  • project
  • propel
  • puissance
  • punch
  • quicken
  • race
  • ram
  • rifle
  • rip
  • rocket
  • roll
  • ruin
  • run
  • rush
  • rush at
  • rustle
  • sadden
  • sap
  • saturate
  • scamper
  • scattering
  • scoot
  • scud
  • scuffle
  • scurry
  • scuttle
  • seasoning
  • shag
  • shake a leg
  • shatter
  • shiver
  • shoot
  • skip
  • slam
  • sling
  • slop
  • slosh
  • slush
  • smack
  • smash
  • smidgen
  • snap
  • snappiness
  • soak
  • sop
  • sortie
  • soundness
  • souse
  • spatter
  • speed
  • spirit
  • spiritedness
  • splash
  • splatter
  • splinter
  • spoil
  • spray
  • sprightliness
  • spring
  • sprinkle
  • sprinkling
  • sprint
  • spritz
  • spunk
  • spunkiness
  • spurt
  • squirt
  • stamina
  • stampede
  • starch
  • steep
  • step
  • step on it
  • step out
  • streak
  • strength
  • sturdiness
  • suspicion
  • swash
  • taste
  • tear
  • throw
  • thrust
  • thwart
  • tincture
  • tinge
  • torment
  • torture
  • toss
  • touch
  • trace
  • travel
  • trifle
  • trip
  • trot
  • trouble
  • undo
  • unhinge
  • unnerve
  • unsettle
  • upset
  • vehemence
  • verdure
  • verve
  • vibrance
  • vibrancy
  • vigor
  • vim
  • vinegar
  • virility
  • vitality
  • vivaciousness
  • vivacity
  • wash
  • water
  • weigh down
  • wellness
  • whirl
  • whisk
  • whiz
  • whizz
  • worry
  • zeal
  • zest
  • zing
  • zip
  • zoom

hagride

  • abash
  • aggravate
  • agitate
  • ail
  • alarm
  • alarum
  • anger
  • annoy
  • bedevil
  • bother
  • bug
  • chafe
  • chivvy
  • chivy
  • concern
  • confound
  • confuse
  • daunt
  • demoralize
  • derail
  • discomfit
  • discomfort
  • discompose
  • disconcert
  • discountenance
  • discourage
  • dishearten
  • dismay
  • dispirit
  • disquiet
  • distemper
  • distract
  • distress
  • disturb
  • embarrass
  • exasperate
  • exercise
  • faze
  • flurry
  • fluster
  • frazzle
  • fret
  • fuss
  • gall
  • get
  • grate
  • harass
  • harry
  • haunt
  • irk
  • irritate
  • jar
  • mortify
  • nettle
  • nonplus
  • peeve
  • perturb
  • pester
  • pique
  • plague
  • put off
  • put out
  • rattle
  • rile
  • shake up
  • undo
  • unhinge
  • unnerve
  • unsettle
  • upset
  • vex
  • weird out
  • worry

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