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Fearlessly

Definition: Fearlessly

Fearlessly

Adverb

1. Without fear; "fearlessly, he led the troops into combat".

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

Date "fearlessly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

 

Synonyms: Fearlessly

Synonyms: dauntlessly (adv), intrepidly (adv). (additional references)
Antonym: fearfully (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Fearlessly

Specialty definitions using "fearlessly": Bell-the-CatEmbankmentWasp. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Fearlessly

DomainTitle

Books

  • Discovering Your Dragon Power: 7 Tools for Living Fearlessly (Inch by Inch Dragon Series) (reference)

  • Living Fearlessly (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Fearlessly

"Fearlessly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fearlessly" is used about 41 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%4153,521

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Fearlessly

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "fearlessly": fearlessly-held.

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

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Modern Translations: Fearlessly

Language Translations for "fearlessly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

smìle (boldly), odvážnì (courageously, daringly). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pelkäämättä (without fear). (various references)

   

German

  

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

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

怖めず臆せず . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おめずおくせず. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earlesslyfay

   

Romanian

  

neînfricat (bold, dare devil, Dauntless, fearless, undaunted). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Fearlessly

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

audaciter, audacius, audacter, audacter, audaciter, audacter; audaciter, audenter. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Fearlessly

Misspellings

"Fearlessly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: farnesyl. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Fearlessly

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-l-l-r-s-s-y"

-2 letters: fearless, leafless.

-3 letters: earless, essayer, fallers, falsely, fellers, flayers, flyless, leasers, rallyes, rayless, refalls, resales, reseals, resells, sealers, sealery, sellers, slayers, yellers.

-4 letters: allees, alleys, easels, erases, eyases, faller, falser, farles, feases, fellas, feller, flares, flayer, fleers, flyers, freely, larees, lasers, layers, leaser, leases, lesser, lyases, rallye, rassle, reales, really, refall, refell, refels.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Fearlessly


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

46 65 61 72 6C 65 73 73 6C 79

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

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

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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)

01000110 01100101 01100001 01110010 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#101 &#97 &#114 &#108 &#101 &#115 &#115 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0065 0061 0072 006C 0065 0073 0073 006C 0079

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

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

40716784787185857891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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