Fearless
['fɪəlɪs] or ['fɪrləs]
Definition
(a.) Free from fear.
Typed by Lloyd
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Undaunted, dauntless, unterrified, courageous, bold, intrepid, brave, valorous, valiant, gallant.
Typist: Lycurgus
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See COURAGEOUS]
Checker: Lucy
Examples
- She is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her resolutions. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Intelligence and spirit are not often combined with steadiness; the stolid, fearless, nature is averse to intellectual toil. Plato. The Republic.
- Lydia was Lydia still; untamed, unabashed, wild, noisy, and fearless. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I am fearless, physically; I am never nervous about danger. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I was upstairs, mama, moving my things, said Susan, in a fearless, self-defending tone, which startled Fanny. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Her frank, fearless face answered for her before she spoke. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Lord Raymond presented himself to the house with fearless confidence and insinuating address. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But he was impatient of the years that must intervene, he was frank of heart and fearless. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They wanted a deeply righteous and fearless church to help them and organize them against the wickedness of powerful men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She was haughty and fearless; she cherished a love of power, and a bitter contempt for him who had despoiled himself of a kingdom. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It lacked the sweet clearness, therefore, of fearless thought. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She stopped, drew me nearer to her--the fearless, noble creature--touched my forehead, sister-like, with her lips, and called me by my Christian name. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He came of a line of resourceful, fearless Scotch-Irish settlers, bone of the bone and sinew of the sinew of those generations that laid the broad foundations of the United States. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But she alternately dreaded and fired up against the workmen, who commented not on her dress, but on her looks, in the same open fearless manner. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Mrs. Clements turned on me with a fearless indignation, for which I respected her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The Reindeer Men's drawings are fearless familiar things, with no hint about them of any religious or occult feelings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her more fearless disposition and happier nerves made everything easy to her there. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I got the key, and went aloft fearless, almost thoughtless. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He was so superbly fearless, masterful, he knew that every problem could be worked out, in life as in geometry. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- My uncle, who is not given to speak well of women, says there are not ten thousand men in England as genuinely fearless as you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The action was more frank and fearless than any I was habituated to indulge in: somehow it pleased her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Fearless and wicked as they are, they dare not attempt such open and gratuitous cruelty! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
Checker: Lucy