Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not fearful; not influenced by fear; courageous.

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  • adjective Not fearful.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ fearful

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Examples

  • Eventually, though, she decided this was exactly what she was working so hard to protect -- this ordinary, unfearful life.

    This Is War: How USAID workers are trained for work and danger in Afghanistan Kristin Henderson 2010

  • It is marketing gone to the extreme of the destruction of the individual as free and unfearful.

    A Paleo-Conservative Message to Republicans 2009

  • And now Camillus, being called to his sixth tribuneship, desired to be excused, as being aged, and perhaps not unfearful of the malice of fortune, and those reverses which seem to ensue upon great prosperity.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • The slow peaceful-looking water wound through the valley and looked as unfearful as the Thames.

    Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972

  • The slow peaceful-looking water wound through the valley and looked as unfearful as the Thames.

    Smokescreen Francis, Dick 1972

  • There was also a frank and unfearful attitude to death, and an acceptance of violence as a kind of ritual which no one accused or pardoned.

    Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

  • Surplice sat down gracefully and lightly on one of our beds, taking extreme care not to strain the somewhat capricious mechanism thereof; sat very proudly; erect; modest but unfearful.

    The Enormous Room 1928

  • The spaniel crouched by the door whining and scratching, and as Kerry came up it raised its beady black eyes to him with a look which, while it was not unfearful, held an unmistakable appeal.

    Dope Sax Rohmer 1921

  • A bee, overtaken in his busy pilfering by the obliterating dusk, hung on a nodding mountain flower, unfearful above the cañon's emptiness.

    Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

  • The whole thing was extraordinary and curious but unfearful, a storm of wind seemed blowing in her face.

    The Ghost Girl 1907

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