adj
Meaning 1
Invulnerable to fear or intimidation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: daredevil, fearless
Antonyms: timid
Standard Lemma guide
dauntless
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɔːnt.ləs/
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General-American: /ˈdɔnt.ləs/
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cot-caught-merger: /ˈdɑnt.ləs/
adjective satellite
Meaning 2
invulnerable to fear or intimidation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- audacious explorers
- fearless reporters and photographers
- intrepid pioneers
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: audacious, brave, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Old French danterbor. Latin domitō Old French donterbor. Middle English daunten English daunt Proto-Indo-European *lewh1- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English dauntless From daunt + -less.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: неустрашим (neustrašim) — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Czech: neohrožený — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Czech: nebojácný — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Dutch: onverschrokken — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Finnish: peloton — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Finnish: huimapäinen — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- French: indomptable — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- German: unerschrocken — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- German: furchtlos — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Hindi: निर्भय (nirbhay) — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Hindi: निडर (niḍar) — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Hungarian: rettenthetetlen — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Latin: interritus — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Northern Mansi: рохтуптаӈкве ве̄румта̄л (rohtuptaňkve vērumtāl) — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Northern Mansi: пилта̄л (piltāl) — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Plautdietsch: brow — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Polish: nieustraszony — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Russian: неустрашимый (neustrašimyj) — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Serbo-Croatian: neustrašiv — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Serbo-Croatian: неустрашив (neustrašiv) — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Spanish: impertérrito — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Turkish: yılmaz — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
- Ukrainian: безстрашний (bezstrašnyj) — invulnerable to fear or intimidation
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