Dauntless

Definition: Dauntless

Dauntless

Adjective

1. Invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dauntless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)

Synonyms: Dauntless

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.

Crosswords: Dauntless

No longer will he be plain Alonso Quijana, but a dauntless knight known as Don Quixote de La Mancha (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman)

Makhalipile: The Dauntless One (1989)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Few Doors West of Hope : The Life and Times of Dauntless Don Slater (reference)

• Dauntless Marine: Joseph Sailer, Jr., Dive-Bombing Ace of Guadalcanal (reference)

• Dauntless Women: Stories of Pioneer Wives (Biography Index Reprint Series) (reference)

• Sbd dauntless (reference)

• SBD Dauntless in Action (aircraft No. 64) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

WAVES Aviation Metalsmiths and Aviation Machinist's Mates (AMM) working on an SBD "Dauntless" aircraft in the air station's Assembly and Repair Department, 24 July 1943. Working on the wing, at left, are Seaman 1st Class (AMM) Annia Marie Garman and Seaman 1st Class Frances O. Culpepper. On and inside the plane are (left to right) AMM 3rd Class Audrey Anderson, AMM 3rd Class Jane Carlisle, AMM 3rd Class Betty Jo Visson, Seaman 1st Class Mary Jane Boring and Seaman 1st Class (AMM) Clara R. Bumgarner. Credit: NAVY.

A Douglas SBD-3 "Dauntless" scout bomber (Bureau # 4542), of USS Enterprise's Bombing Squadron Six (VB-6), is parked on board USS Yorktown (CV-5) after landing at about 1140 hrs on 4 June 1942. This plane, damaged during the attack on the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga that morning, landed on Yorktown as it was low on fuel. It was later lost with the carrier. Its crew included Ensign George H. Goldsmith, pilot, and Radioman 1st Class James W. Patterson, Jr. Note damage to the horizontal tail and dual stripes painted on the fin. Credit: NAVY.

SBD "Dauntless" dive bombers from USS Hornet (CV-8) approaching the burning Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma to make the third set of attacks on her, during the early afternoon of 6 June 1942. Mikuma had been hit earlier by strikes from Hornet and USS Enterprise (CV-6), leaving her dead in the water and fatally damaged. Photo was enlarged from a 16mm color motion picture film. Note bombs hung beneath these planes. Credit: NAVY.

Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June 1862, page 96, depicting CSS Nashville (1861-1862) in dock at Southampton, England, circa January 1862, with USS Tuscarora (1861-1883) keeping watch in the right distance. Other identified ships in the distance are Dauntless and Moulton, which may be British warships present to protect English neutrality. Credit: NAVY.

A black column of smoke poured from the funnel of the Dauntless, and the race for life began. Credit: Library of Congress.

The Filibuster Dauntless. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dauntless. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

Trim (baresark, berserk, berserker, brave, cant, courageous, dare devil, daring, Doughty, fearless, gallant, game, Hardy, lion-hearted, manful, plucky, reckless, spunky, stouthearted, valiant, valor, valorous, valour), I Patrembur (bold, fearless, unabashed, undaunted). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لا يهاب, ‏لا يخاف, ‏جسور (adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, courageous, daring, fearless, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, stout hearted), ‏جرىء (adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, courageous, daring, defiant, fearless, forward, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, lion-hearted, plucky, stout, stout hearted), ‏شجاع (brave, courageous, doughty, fearless, gallant, game, gritty, hardy, hero, manful, martial, mettlesome, plucky, red blooded, spirited, stalwart, stout, tiger, undaunted, valiant, valorous), ‏باسل (brave, courageous, doughty, gallant, intrepid, soldierly, undaunted, valiant). (various references)

Bulgarian 

Неустрашим. (various references)

Czech

Nebojácný (fearless, intrepid, unapprehensive, undaunted). (various references)

French

Intrépide, Indomptable, Courageux. (various references)

German

unerschrocken (bold, brave, courageous, fearless, Hardy, intrepid, intrepidly, lionhearted, stout, stout hearted, stout-heartedly, unabashed, unafraid, undaunted, undauntedly, unflinching, unflinchingly), furchtlos (fearless, fearlessly, Hardy, intrepid, intrepidly, lionhearted, unabashed, unafraid, undaunted, unshrinking). (various references)

Greek 

Απτόητοσ, Ατρόμητοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ּא ׀רתע, ְמיץ (Doughty), ׀ועז. (various references)

Hungarian

rettenthetetlen (dreadnought, fearless, indomitable, intrepid, redoubtable, undaunted). (various references)

Indonesian

tak takut, segagah (as (brave, courageous, heroic), berani (audacious, brave, dare, game, manful, plucky, stout, stout-hearted, valiant), bagak (confident). (various references)

Italian

Intrepido (fearless, gallant, intrepid, stouthearted, unshrinking, valiant). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

赳赳たる武夫 (soldier of dauntless courage). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きゅうきゅうたるぶふ (soldier of dauntless courage). (various references)

Manx

neuagglagh (fearless). (various references)

Pig Latin

auntlessday.(various references)

Portuguese

destemido (aweless, fearless, gallant, hardy, high-spirited, impavid, plucky, undaunted, unshrinking), intrépido (audacious, aweless, fearless, intrepid, manful, spirited, stout, stouthearted, undaunted, unshrinking), audaz (audacious, bold, chanceful, courageous, daring, devil, intrepid, undaunted, venturesome), arrojado (audacious, bold, brave, chanceful, cool, courageous, dashing, rash, valiant, venturesome, venturous). (various references)

Romanian

Neînfricat (bold, dare devil, fearless, fearlessly, undaunted), Intrepid (intrepid), Curajos (bold, brave, courageous, daring, gallant, game, gamy, gritty, high-spirited, manful, nervy, pluckily, plucky, reckless, spirited, stalwart, stout, temerarious, unflinching, vigorous). (various references)

Russian 

Неустрашимый, неустрашимый (fearless, intrepid, lion-hearted, undaunted, unshrinking), бесстрашный (awless, devoid of fear, fearless, intrepid, unafraid, unapprehensive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neustrašiv (brave, fearless, intrepid, undaunted, unshrinking). (various references)

Spanish

impávido (intrepid, undaunted, unperturbed). (various references)

Swedish

Oförfärad (fearless, undaunted). (various references)

Turkish

Yılmaz (indomitable, undaunted, undismayed, unflinching), Korkusuz (courageous, fearless, intrepid, safe, stalwart, unafraid, undaunted, unflinching), Cesur (adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, bulldog, chivalrous, courageous, daring, dashing, Doughty, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gallant, game, gamy, great-hearted, gritty, gutsy, Hardy, heroic, intrepid, martial, plucky, redoubtable, resolute, spartan, spirited, spunky, stout, stouthearted, undaunted, valiant, valorous, venturesome, Venturous), Azimli (dead-set on, decided, decisive, determined, dogged, flat-footed, full of zeal, hellbent, high pressure, militant, peppy, persevering, pertinacious, professional, resolute, resolved, set, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, stable, stout, strong-minded, stubborn, sturdy, undeterred, zealous). (various references)

Ukrainian

Безтрашний. (various references)

Vietnamese 

dũng cảm (bold, courageous, fearless, hardily, hardy, heart-whole, high-hearted, high-spirited, intrepid, lion-hearted, prow, stout-hearted, valiant), tinh thần kiên cường (dauntlessness), không sợ (fearless, unappalled, unawed, unscared), gan dạ; tinh thần bất khuất. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dauntless": dauntlessly, dauntlessness, dauntlessnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dauntless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dauntiess, dautless, dountless. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: adultness.

-1 letter: unsalted.

-2 letters: auldest, dentals, desalts, dulness, eluants, lunated, saluted, salutes, sendals, sensual, slanted, suldans, sultans, sundaes, taluses, tussled, unlades, unleads, unsated, unseals, unseats.

-3 letters: adults, anuses, assent, daunts, deltas, dental, desalt, dulses, elands, eluant, ladens, lasted, latens, leasts, lunate, lunets, lunted, lusted, naleds, nudest, salted, salute, sanest, saults, sauted, sautes, sedans, sendal, slants.

+2 letters: adultnesses, andalusites, dauntlessly, sustainedly, wanderlusts.

+3 letters: pasturelands.

+4 letters: dauntlessness, industrialise, nucleotidases, subadolescent, unassimilated, unestablished.

+5 letters: calculatedness, documentalists, foundationless, fraudulentness, idolatrousness, industrialised, industrialises, industrializes, maladjustments, outlandishness, subadolescents, superinsulated, ultradistances.