Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Incapable of being intimidated or discouraged; fearless. synonym: brave.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being daunted; bold; fearless; intrepid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being daunted; undaunted; bold; fearless; intrepid.
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- adjective
Invulnerable tofear orintimidation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective invulnerable to fear or intimidation
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have seen you again + again at a time of confusion take the course almost blindly because long after your powers of ratiocination were exhausted you clung to the idea of dauntless courage.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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I have seen you again + again at a time of confusion take the course almost blindly because long after your powers of ratiocination were exhausted you clung to the idea of dauntless courage.
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
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Her reputation for complete indifference to admiration and her unvarying attitude towards men were as well known as her dauntless courage and obstinate determination.
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"Their horses are also tired, and we may beat them yet," called the dauntless Masouda.
The Brethren Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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Saratoga with his shrill whistle and stentorian voice called his dauntless braves where the fight was thickest!
History of the United States, Volume 2 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880
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o 'fear made the blood tingle in his back, the women screaming, and the men crying, and the red blood flowing, and my father's sword dauntless in the van -- bring it back, McRae.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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His partner in that endeavor was gritty, dauntless, razor-sharp captain Sourav Ganguly , while in Mahendra Singh Dhoni India currently have a skipper who has tactical acumen, icy calmness and, most important of all, the respect of the great players around him.
Can England Rain on India's Parade? Richard Lord 2011
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The man telling the story is timid and emotionally fragile, yet the boy he describes is plucky and dauntless.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Win a SONY Reader. It’s as easy as sharing your emotions. 2009
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Some people, one imagines, may be naturally dauntless and buoyant of heart, but with him, good spirits always seemed, far more admirably, to be the product of a strict program of self-improvement in his youth he believed, like most truly modest men, in the absolute virtue of self-improvement which had wrought deep, essential changes in a nature inclined by birth to the darker view and gloominess that cropped up elsewhere in the family tree.
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Her dauntless attitude was partly the result of surviving a near fatal ordeal in Bali six months earlier.
Making Wall Street Blush Lizzie Simon 2011
bilby commented on the word dauntless
The tale of their hosts is countless,
And the tale of ours a score;
But the palm is naught to the dauntless,
And the cause is more and more.
Give a cheer!
We may die, but not give way.
Here's to a silent morrow,
And here's to a stout to-day!
- Richard Hovey, 'At the End of Day'.
September 16, 2009