DAUNTLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dauntless mean? 

• DAUNTLESS (adjective)
  The adjective DAUNTLESS has 1 sense:

1. invulnerable to fear or intimidation

  Familiarity information: DAUNTLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAUNTLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Invulnerable to fear or intimidation

Synonyms:

audacious; brave; dauntless; fearless; hardy; intrepid; unfearing

Context example:

intrepid pioneers

Similar:

bold (fearless and daring)

Derivation:

dauntlessness (resolute courageousness)

 Context examples 

This circumstance, added to his well-known integrity and dauntless courage, made me very desirous to engage him.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Yet he faced his foemen with dauntless courage, dashing in, springing back, sure-footed, steady-handed, with a point which seemed to menace three at once.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This dauntless example fired Zara.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There is a man in our own days whose words are not framed to tickle delicate ears: who, to my thinking, comes before the great ones of society, much as the son of Imlah came before the throned Kings of Judah and Israel; and who speaks truth as deep, with a power as prophet-like and as vital—a mien as dauntless and as daring.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have hired a vessel and am occupied in collecting my sailors; those whom I have already engaged appear to be men on whom I can depend and are certainly possessed of dauntless courage.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)