Fearless

Definition: Fearless

Fearless

Adjective

1. Oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them.

2. Possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching; "Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver but less daring"- Herman Melville; "a frank courageous heart...triumphed over pain"- William Wordsworth"; "set a courageous example by leading them safely into and out of enemy-held territory".

3. Resolute and without fear.

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

Date "fearless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Fearless [Sans peur ]. Jean, Duke of Burgundy (1371-1419). (See Bayard.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Fearless is a 1993 movie directed by Peter Weir.

The cast:

Jeff Bridges
Isabella Rossellini
Tom Hulce
Rosie Perez
John Turturro

The plot:
Max Klein is a survivor from a plane crash which killed many of the people on the plane, including his business partner. The trauma transforms his entire life. He enters an altered state of consciousness, soon after the crash he even thinks he is dead, and begins rethinking life, death, God, and the afterlife. Existential questions start to preoccupy his life, he moves away from his wife, son, and friends but, encouraged by an aircraft company psychiatrist he tries to break depression and apathy of another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who lost her baby son during the flight.

Synonyms: Fearless

Synonyms: audacious (adj), brave (adj), courageous (adj), dauntless (adj), doughty (adj), hardy (adj), intrepid (adj), unafraid(p) (adj), unfearing (adj). (additional references)

Antonyms: afraid(p) (adj), cowardly (adj). (additional references)

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.
Hope	Unsuspecting, unsuspicious; fearless, free from fear, free from suspicion, free from distrust, free from despair, exempt from fear, exempt from suspicion, exempt from distrust, exempt from despair;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Fearless

English words defined with "fearless": audaciousness, audacity ♦ Bayard, bold ♦ Chevalier de Bayard, coolness ♦ Dreadless ♦ Fearnaught, Frightless ♦ Great-hearted ♦ Impavid ♦ nervelessness ♦ Pierre de Terrail, Pierre Terrail ♦ Seigneur de Bayard ♦ temerity ♦ Undauntable ♦ Whisky Jack. (references)

Specialty definitions using "fearless": Bravest of the Brave ♦ Hair, HAMED. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	This bounty hunter is my kind of scum: fearless and inventive (Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi; writing credit: George Lucas; Lawrence Kasdan) Fearless Bandit, empty your bladder of that bitter black urine men call coffee (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond) We are the powerful, we should walk fearless in the open (Queen of the Damned; writing credit: Scott Abbott) G-Force! Fearless young orphans, protecting Earth's entire galaxy (Battle of the Planets; writing credit: Souleymane Cissé) One would feel so much safer with a strong, fearless man beside one. (Carry On Up the Jungle; writing credit: Talbot Rothwell)
Lyrics	Fearless people, (Prayer For The Dying; performing artist: Seal) If you ever get near us, don't jeer us, we're fearless ("Men in Black"; performing artist: Will Smith)
Movie/TV Titles	Fearless Frank (1967) The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) Fearless Fly Meets the Monsters (1965) Tarzan the Fearless (1964) Fearless Female (1963)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	7 Steps to Fearless Speaking (reference) Fear (Fearless, 23) (reference) Fearless Faith: Living Beyond the Walls of Safe Christianity (reference) Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World (reference) The Fearless Frying Cookbook (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Fearless (reference) The Fearless Hyena (reference) Flintstones: Fearless Fred Strikes Again (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Fearless Feminist Porn (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Jacket patch of the ship's insignia, as used in 1960. Note that the motto "Proud and Fearless" is misspelled in this example. Credit: NAVY.		In San Francisco Bay, California, with 300 wounded soldiers from Manila on board, 2 August 1899. The tug Fearless, of San Francisco, is alongside her starboard quarter. Credit: NAVY.
	The Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth--L'Auto Bolide thrilling dip of death--M'lle Mauricia de Tiers, the fearless, young and fascinating Parisian, in a dreadful, headlong leap, loop and topsy turvy plunging somersault with an automobile [...]. Credit: Library of Congress.		Li'l Abner. Fearless Fosdick. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
William Shakespeare	Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Winston S. Churchill	1946	But we must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	In her arms he felt that he had suddenly become strong and fearless and sure of himself
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Franklin Pierce	1853-1857	I repair to the post assigned me not as to one sought, but in obedience to the unsolicited expression of your will, answerable only for a fearless, faithful, and diligent exercise of my best powers.
Woodrow Wilson	1913-1921	With the great Government went many deep secret things which we too long delayed to look into and scrutinize with candid, fearless eyes.
Warren G. Harding	1921-1923	While it uncovered our portion of hateful selfishness at home, it also revealed the heart of America as sound and fearless, and beating in confidence unfailing.
Herbert C. Hoover	1929-1933	On the other hand, we should be fearless when the authority rests only in the Federal Government.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Fearless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 89.87% of the time. "Fearless" is used about 158 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	89.87%	142	26,554
Noun (proper)	10.13%	16	87,710
Total	100.00%	158	N/A

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "fearless": fearless-looking.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "fearless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		trim (baresark, berserk, berserker, brave, cant, courageous, dare devil, daring, Dauntless, Doughty, gallant, game, Hardy, lion-hearted, manful, plucky, reckless, spunky, stouthearted, valiant, valor, valorous, valour), i patrembur (bold, Dauntless, unabashed, undaunted). (various references)

Arabic		‏مقدام (bold, enterprising, intrepid, plucky, venturesome), ‏لا يعرف الخوف, ‏جسور (adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, stout hearted), ‏جرىء (adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, defiant, forward, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, lion-hearted, plucky, stout, stout hearted), ‏شجاع (brave, courageous, dauntless, doughty, gallant, game, gritty, hardy, hero, manful, martial, mettlesome, plucky, red blooded, spirited, stalwart, stout, tiger, undaunted, valiant, valorous). (various references)

Bulgarian		юначен (heroic, thoroughbred, valiant), неустрашим (intrepid, mettled, mettlesome, temerarious, undaunted, unshrinking), безстрашен (intrepid, lion-hearted, undaunted, unflinching). (various references)

Chinese		� 所畏惧, 大膽 (courageous, daring), 不怕 . (various references)

Czech		odvážný (audacious, brave, courageous, daring, great-hearted, high-spirited, lion-hearted, manful, mettlesome, perilous, plucky, risky, soldierly, spunky, stalwart, venturesome), neohrožený (audacious, intrepid, undaunted), nebojácný (Dauntless, intrepid, unapprehensive, undaunted). (various references)

Dutch		stout (audacious, bold, courageous, daring, intrepid), onvervaard (bold, courageous), ferm (bold, brave, courageous, energetic, firm, gallant, robust, sturdy, vigorous), dapper (bold, brave, courageous, daring, gallant, valiant), boud (bold, brave, courageous, valiant). (various references)

Esperanto		sentima (bold, courageous). (various references)

Finnish		peloton (intrepid, undaunted, undismayed), pelkäämätön. (various references)

French		sans peur, qui ne connaît pas la peur, intrépide, courageux. (various references)

German		furchtlos (Dauntless, fearlessly, Hardy, intrepid, intrepidly, lionhearted, unabashed, unafraid, undaunted, unshrinking). (various references)

Greek		άφοβοσ (intrepid, undaunted, unfearing), ατρόμητοσ (intrepid, unawed, undaunted, unflinching), ατρόμητος (intrepid). (various references)

Hebrew		לא פוח�", עשוי לבלי חת (undaunted), � ועז (audacious, bold, brave, courageous, daredevil, daring, desperate, enterprising, forward, venturesome). (various references)

Hungarian		rettenthetetlen (dauntless, dreadnought, indomitable, intrepid, redoubtable, undaunted), bátor (ballsy, bold, brave, courageous, dauntless, Doughty, dreadnought, enterprising, gallant, gritty, hardy, manful, mettlesome, plucky, spirited, spunky, stalwart, stout hearted, valiant). (various references)

Italian		intrepido (Dauntless, gallant, intrepid, stouthearted, unshrinking, valiant). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		精悍 (intrepid), � �性のすわった , 不敵 (bold, daring, intrepid, tough). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ふてき (bold, daring, impropriety, inadequacy, inappropriateness, intrepid, tough, unfitness), せいか�" (can manufacturing, careful supervision, grand spectacle, intrepid, peaceful, quiet, reaching the home plate, returning alive, seminal duct, sexual feelings, tranquility, watchful waiting), �"�"じょうのすわった. (various references)

Korean		두� �워하지 않�". (various references)

Manx		neuagglagh (dauntless), gyn aggle (unafraid, undaunted). (various references)

Norwegian		fryktløs (intrepid). (various references)

Pig Latin		earlessfay.(various references)

Portuguese		intrépido (audacious, aweless, dauntless, intrepid, manful, spirited, stout, stouthearted, undaunted, unshrinking), destemido (aweless, dauntless, gallant, hardy, high-spirited, impavid, plucky, undaunted, unshrinking), corajoso (adventurous, bold, brave, chivalrous, cool, courageous, gallant, game, gamy, go-ahead, hardy, high-hearted, high-spirited, intrepid, lion-hearted, manful, mettled, mettlesome, plucky, resolute, soldierly, spirited, spunky, stout, unshrinking, valiant, venturous). (various references)

Romanian		neînfricat (bold, dare devil, Dauntless, fearlessly, undaunted), îndrãzneţ (assuming, audacious, bold, boldly, cheeky, cocky, courageous, daring, gallant, high-spirited, intrepid, manful, nervy, overdaring, reckless, risky, venturesome). (various references)

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

Serbo-Croatian		neustrašiv (brave, dauntless, intrepid, undaunted, unshrinking). (various references)

Spanish		intrépido (audacious, bold, Dauntless, intrepid). (various references)

Swedish		orädd (intrepid, lion-hearted), oförfärad (dauntless, undaunted). (various references)

Thai		กล้าหาญ (audacious, bold, doughty, lion-hearted). (various references)

Turkish		pervasız (bluff, careless, daft, daring, devil may care, fond, gutsy, harum scarum, reckless), korkusuz (courageous, Dauntless, intrepid, safe, stalwart, unafraid, undaunted, unflinching), gözüpek (adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, courageous, dare devil, daring, gamy, gutsy, Hardy, intrepid, nothing if not courageous, stalwart, undaunted, venturesome, Venturous), cesur (adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, brave, bulldog, chivalrous, courageous, daring, dashing, Dauntless, Doughty, enterprising, 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). (various references)

Turkmen		gaяduwsyz (intrepid). (various references)

Ukrainian		сумирний (non-aggressive, submissive), безстрашний (aweless, awless, intrepid, lion-hearted, undaunted). (various references)

Vietnamese		không sợ hâi; can đảm, không sợ (dauntless, unappalled, unawed, unscared), dũng cảm (bold, courageous, dauntless, hardily, hardy, heart-whole, high-hearted, high-spirited, intrepid, lion-hearted, prow, stout-hearted, valiant), bạo dạn (gritty). (various references)

Welsh		eofn (bold). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fearless": fearlessly, fearlessness, fearlessnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fearless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ferales, ferals. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "fearless" (pronounced fi"rlus)
5	-i" r l u s	earless, peerless.
4	-r l u s	airless, careless, hairless, scoreless, wireless.
3	-l u s	accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-l-r-s-s"
	-1 letter: earless, leasers, resales, reseals, sealers.
	-2 letters: easels, erases, falser, farles, feases, flares, fleers, larees, lasers, leaser, leases, lesser, rassle, reales, refels, resale, reseal, sarees, sealer.
	-3 letters: alefs, arles, arses, earls, easel, eases, erase, erses, false, fares, farle, farls, fears, fease, feels, feral, feres, fesse, flare, fleas, fleer, flees, frass, frees, laree, lares, laser.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-l-r-s-s"
	+2 letters: fatherless, fearlessly, lifesavers, parfleshes.
	+3 letters: carefulness, fearfulness, featherless, featureless, federaleses, federalisms, federalists, forecastles, frailnesses, luciferases, persiflages, tearfulness.
	+4 letters: anglerfishes, artfulnesses, dreadfulness, dreamfulness, fatherliness, fearlessness, fiberglassed, fiberglasses, fibreglasses, forestallers, formalnesses, gracefulness, gratefulness, reclassified, reclassifies, wearifulness.
	+5 letters: carefulnesses, favorableness, fearfulnesses, festivalgoers, harmfulnesses, masterfulness, pasqueflowers, prayerfulness, regardfulness, superfamilies, tearfulnesses.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
fearless	229	fearless series tv	5
fearless record	46	blaine david fearless	5
fearless wb	26	fearless four	4
fearless vampire killer	23	cook fearless leigh rachel	4
fearless francine pascal	21	fearless ram	4
fearless friday	14	fast fearless	4
book fearless	12	duo fearless	4
fearless by francine pascal	11	cook fearless leigh rachael	4
fearless show tv	10	fearless show	4
fearless fosdick	10	brigade fearless flying frog	3
fearless fly	9	houston fearless	3
dj fearless irene	8	fearless floyd lyrics pink	3
fearless tv	8	fearless gaia moore	3
fearless leader	7	driver fearless ram	3
fearless gaia	7	flash fearless	3
fearless series	7	fearless hyena	3
fearless living	7	fearless loving	3
fearless movie	6	fearless nadia	2
fearless hms	6	fearless pilot	2
book fearless series	5	dvd fearless killer vampire	2
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Fearless

Definition: Fearless

Fearless

Adjective

Specialty Definition: Fearless

Specialty Definition: Fearless

Synonyms: Fearless

Synonyms within Context: Fearless

Courage

Hope

Crosswords: Fearless

Modern Usage: Fearless

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Commercial Usage: Fearless

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Photo Album: Fearless

Familiar Quotations: Fearless

William Shakespeare

Historic Usage: Fearless

Winston S. Churchill

Use in Literature: Fearless

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Speeches: Fearless

Franklin Pierce

Woodrow Wilson

Warren G. Harding

Herbert C. Hoover

Usage Frequency: Fearless

Expression: Fearless

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fearless

Modern Translation: Fearless

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Derivations & Misspellings: Fearless

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Rhyming with "Fearless"

Anagrams: Fearless

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