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Definition: Fearlessly |
FearlesslyAdverb1. 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: FearlesslySynonyms: dauntlessly (adv), intrepidly (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: fearfully (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fearlessly |
| Specialty definitions using "fearlessly": Bell-the-Cat ♦ Embankment ♦ Wasp. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 41 | 53,521 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Beginning with "fearlessly": fearlessly-held. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 neînfricat (bold, dare devil, Dauntless, fearless, undaunted). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | audaciter, audacius, audacter, audacter, audaciter, audacter; audaciter, audenter. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Fearlessly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: farnesyl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 61 72 6C 65 73 73 6C 79 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .- .-. .-.. . ... ... .-.. -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01100001 01110010 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e a r l e s s l y |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40716784787185857891 |
| 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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