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FEARLESS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them
Synonyms:
fearless; unafraid
Classified under:
Similar:
unapprehensive (not recognizing or slow to recognize danger)
unblinking; unflinching; unintimidated; unshrinking (not shrinking from danger)
unfrightened (not affected by fright)
Also:
bold (fearless and daring)
brave; courageous (possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching)
Attribute:
fear; fearfulness; fright (an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight))
Derivation:
fearlessness (feeling no fear)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Invulnerable to fear or intimidation
Example:
intrepid pioneers
Synonyms:
audacious; brave; dauntless; fearless; hardy; intrepid; unfearing
Classified under:
Similar:
bold (fearless and daring)
Derivation:
fearlessness (the trait of feeling no fear)
fearlessness (feeling no fear)
Context examples:
She was their earliest visitor in their settled life; and Captain Wentworth, by putting her in the way of recovering her husband's property in the West Indies, by writing for her, acting for her, and seeing her through all the petty difficulties of the case with the activity and exertion of a fearless man and a determined friend, fully requited the services which she had rendered, or ever meant to render, to his wife.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
He was to know fear many times in his dealing with man; yet it was a token of the fearless companionship with man that was ultimately to be his.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“I was upstairs, mama, moving my things,” said Susan, in a fearless, self-defending tone, which startled Fanny.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Be brave and pure, fearless to the strong and humble to the weak; and so, whether this love prosper or no, you will have fitted yourself to be honored by a maiden's love, which is, in sooth, the highest guerdon which a true knight can hope for.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Excepting the moments of peculiar delight, which any marked or unlooked-for instance of Edmund's consideration of her in the last few months had excited, Fanny had never known so much felicity in her life, as in this unchecked, equal, fearless intercourse with the brother and friend who was opening all his heart to her, telling her all his hopes and fears, plans, and solicitudes respecting that long thought of, dearly earned, and justly valued blessing of promotion; who could give her direct and minute information of the father and mother, brothers and sisters, of whom she very seldom heard; who was interested in all the comforts and all the little hardships of her home at Mansfield; ready to think of every member of that home as she directed, or differing only by a less scrupulous opinion, and more noisy abuse of their aunt Norris, and with whom (perhaps the dearest indulgence of the whole) all the evil and good of their earliest years could be gone over again, and every former united pain and pleasure retraced with the fondest recollection.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Abbot Berghersh was a good man, but how was he better than this kindly knight, who lived as simple a life, held as lofty and inflexible an ideal of duty, and did with all his fearless heart whatever came to his hand to do?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If he is to die, there will be two poor young men less in the world; and with a fearless face and bold voice would I say to any one, that wealth and consequence could fall into no hands more deserving of them.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Once it was a wild sow which scuttled out of the bracken, with two young sounders at her heels, and once a lordly red staggard walked daintily out from among the tree trunks, and looked around him with the fearless gaze of one who lived under the King's own high protection.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Active and fearless, and though rather small, strongly made, she seemed formed for a horsewoman; and to the pure genuine pleasure of the exercise, something was probably added in Edmund's attendance and instructions, and something more in the conviction of very much surpassing her sex in general by her early progress, to make her unwilling to dismount.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
