FEARLESSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fearlessly mean? 

• FEARLESSLY (adverb)
  The adverb FEARLESSLY has 1 sense:

1. without fear

  Familiarity information: FEARLESSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FEARLESSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without fear

Synonyms:

dauntlessly; fearlessly; intrepidly

Context example:

fearlessly, he led the troops into combat

Antonym:

fearfully (in fear)

Pertainym:

fearless (oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them)

 Context examples 

She stood fearlessly in front of him, still stroking her bird; but twice she threw a swift questioning glance over her shoulder, as one who is in search of aid.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he spoke he fearlessly patted the head he had so mercilessly pounded, and though Buck’s hair involuntarily bristled at touch of the hand, he endured it without protest.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

His free nature asserted itself, and he showed his teeth and snarled fearlessly in the face of the wrathful god.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

That the general, having erected such a monument, should be able to face it, was not perhaps very strange, and yet that he could sit so boldly collected within its view, maintain so elevated an air, look so fearlessly around, nay, that he should even enter the church, seemed wonderful to Catherine.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It so chanced that, as the battle went against his man, my eyes stole round very often to note the expression upon Sir Lothian Hume’s face, for I knew how fearlessly he had laid the odds, and I understood that his fortunes as well as his champion were going down before the smashing blows of the old bruiser.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)