dauntless

English

Etymology

daunt +‎ -less

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔːntləs/

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Adjective

dauntless (comparative more dauntless, superlative most dauntless)

1. Invulnerable to fear or intimidation.

   Synonyms: daredevil, fearless

   Antonym: timid

   • 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXXIV:

     [...] And yet / Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set, / And blew "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came."

Related terms

• undaunted (adj)

Translations

invulnerable to fear or intimidation

• Bulgarian: неустрашим (bg) (neustrašim)
• Czech: neohrožený, nebojácný
• Finnish: peloton (fi), huimapäinen
• French: indomptable (fr)
• German: unerschrocken (de), furchtlos (de)
• Latin: interritus
• Plautdietsch: brow
• Polish: nieustraszony (pl) m
• Russian: неустрашимый (ru) (neustrašimyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: neustrašiv (sh), неустрашив m (neustrašiv)
• Spanish: impertérrito (es)
• Turkish: yılmaz (tr)
• Ukrainian: безстрашний (uk) m (bezstrašnyj)

See also

• indominable

Anagrams

• adultness