FEARLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fearless mean? 

• FEARLESS (adjective)
  The adjective FEARLESS has 2 senses:

1. oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them

2. invulnerable to fear or intimidation

  Familiarity information: FEARLESS used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEARLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them

Synonyms:

fearless; unafraid

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

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

intrepid pioneers

Similar:

bold (fearless and daring)

Derivation:

fearlessness (the trait of feeling no fear)

fearlessness (feeling no fear)

 Context examples 

And then the cub saw his mother, the she-wolf, the fearless one, crouching down till her belly touched the ground, whimpering, wagging her tail, making peace signs.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Lydia was Lydia still; untamed, unabashed, wild, noisy, and fearless.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

They are fearless and without religion, save superstition, and they talk only their own varieties of the Romany tongue.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Sir Nigel's heart beat high as he looked upon their free bearing and fearless faces.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her more fearless disposition and happier nerves made everything easy to her there.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I just put my two arms round her and said, "Come, Bessie! don't scold." The action was more frank and fearless than any I was habituated to indulge in: somehow it pleased her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Strong, fearless, and energetic, he had sufficient virtue to enable him to impose his odious vices upon a cowering people for ten or twelve years.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her resolutions.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had caught both substance and shadow—both fortune and affection, and was just the happy man he ought to be; talking only of himself and his own concerns—expecting to be congratulated—ready to be laughed at—and, with cordial, fearless smiles, now addressing all the young ladies of the place, to whom, a few weeks ago, he would have been more cautiously gallant.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)