Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Incapable of being intimidated or discouraged; fearless. See Synonyms at brave.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Invulnerable to fear or intimidation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Incapable of being daunted; undaunted; bold; fearless; intrepid.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Incapable of being daunted; bold; fearless; intrepid.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. invulnerable to fear or intimidation
Etymologies
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.
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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.
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Saratoga with his shrill whistle and stentorian voice called his dauntless braves where the fight was thickest!
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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.
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Her dauntless attitude was partly the result of surviving a near fatal ordeal in Bali six months earlier.
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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.
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The man telling the story is timid and emotionally fragile, yet the boy he describes is plucky and dauntless.
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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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It is not long before three dauntless characters are making their way to the prison: brave, Norwegian-speaking Nils; resourceful English-speaking Bernard; and the refined Miss Bianca, whose principal weapon is her devastating charm.
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