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DREADLESS

Definition: DREADLESS

DREADLESS

Adjective

1. Exempt from danger which causes dread; secure.

2. Free from dread; fearless; intrepid; dauntless; as, dreadless heart.

Adverb

1. Without doubt.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "DREADLESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)

Synonyms within Context: DREADLESS

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Courage	Bold, bold-spirited; daring, audacious; fearless, dauntless, dreadless, aweless; undaunted, unappalled, undismayed, unawed, unblanched, unabashed, unalarmed, unflinching, unshrinking, unblanching, unapprehensive; confident, self-reliant; bold as a lion, bold as brass.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Anagrams: DREADLESS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: resaddles.
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-l-r-s-s"
	-1 letter: resaddle, saddlers, sledders.
	-2 letters: address, dealers, deleads, dressed, earless, eldress, ladders, leaders, leasers, raddles, rassled, reddles, resales, reseals, resedas, saddler, saddles, sealers, sledder.
	-3 letters: adders, addles, alders, deader, dealer, delead, dreads, easels, elders, erased, erases, ladder, laders, larded, larees, lasers, leaded, leader, leased, leaser, leases, lesser, raddle, rassle, readds, reales, reddle, resale, reseal.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-l-r-s-s"
	+1 letter: saddleries, saddlesore.
	+2 letters: addressable, saddlebreds, saddletrees, skedaddlers, stepladders.
	+3 letters: balderdashes, dreadfulness.
	+5 letters: dreadfulnesses.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: DREADLESS

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 52 45 41 44 4C 45 53 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.. .-. . .- -.. .-.. . ... ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01010010 01000101 01000001 01000100 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#76 &#69 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 0045 0041 0044 004C 0045 0053 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

385239353846395353

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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