UNDAUNTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does undaunted mean? 

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

1. unshaken in purpose

2. resolutely courageous

  Familiarity information: UNDAUNTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDAUNTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unshaken in purpose

Synonyms:

undaunted; undismayed; unshaken

Context example:

wholly undismayed by the commercial failure of the three movies he had made

Similar:

resolute (firm in purpose or belief; characterized by firmness and determination)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Resolutely courageous

Context example:

undaunted in the face of death

Similar:

brave; courageous (possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching)

 Context examples 

“Why, you and me, sir,” was the undaunted reply.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"Splendid!" cried the undaunted Challenger, rubbing his injured arm.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No fear of death will darken St. John's last hour: his mind will be unclouded, his heart will be undaunted, his hope will be sure, his faith steadfast.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Draw it at once, or your man will get hurt, said Jackson, and we saw that as the undaunted smith stood up to Wilson for another round, a dozen rough fellows were clustering round him with bludgeons.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was quite as undaunted and as lively as ever; and, after seeing him, Emma thus moralised to herself:—I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This is the sort of shelf on which young wives and mothers may consent to be laid, safe from the restless fret and fever of the world, finding loyal lovers in the little sons and daughters who cling to them, undaunted by sorrow, poverty, or age, walking side by side, through fair and stormy weather, with a faithful friend, who is, in the true sense of the good old Saxon word, the 'house-band', and learning, as Meg learned, that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it not as a queen, but as a wise wife and mother.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

On this occasion he seemed to think he was introduced expressly to keep Traddles at bay; and he barked at my old friend, and made short runs at his plate, with such undaunted pertinacity, that he may be said to have engrossed the conversation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)