English
Etymology
From fear + -less.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fearless (comparative more fearless, superlative most fearless)
- Without fear.
1990, House of Cards, season 1, episode 3:"Our fearless reporter"... I'm not fearless, John. I don't like this.
1990, Ashes: Battles and Bellylaughs, Byron Bay: Swan Publishing, page 207:England's wicket-keeper in the 50s, he was fearless about standing on the stumps to fastish bowlers[.]
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Translations
free from fear
- Armenian: անվախ (hy) (anvax)
- Azerbaijani: qorxmaz (az)
- Belarusian: бясстра́шны (bjasstrášny)
- Bulgarian: безстра́шен (bg) (bezstrášen), неустраши́м (bg) (neustraším)
- Cherokee: ᏍᎦᏎᏅ (sgasenv)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不怕的 (zh) (bùpà de), 大膽的 / 大胆的 (zh) (dàdǎn de)
- Czech: nebojácný m
- Danish: frygtløs, uforfærdet
- Dutch: onbevreesd (nl)
- Esperanto: sentima
- Finnish: peloton (fi)
- French: courageux (fr), brave (fr), intrépide (fr)
- Galician: destemido
- Georgian: უშიშარი (ušišari), გაბედული (gabeduli), მამაცი (mamaci), შეუპოვარი (šeuṗovari)
- German: furchtlos (de)
- Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃 (unagands)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἄφοβος (áphobos), ἀδεής (adeḗs)
- Hindi: निर्भीक (hi) m (nirbhīk), निडर (hi) (niḍar), निर्भय (hi) (nirbhay)
- Hungarian: rettenthetetlen (hu), félelmetlen, féletlen (archaic)
- Jamaican Creole: tallawah
- Japanese: 大胆な (ja) (だいたんな, daitan na), 恐れない (ja) (おそれない, osorenai)
- Latin: impavidus, intrepidus
- Lithuanian: bebaimis
- Macedonian: бестрашен (bestrašen)
- Maori: mātātoa, wehikore
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fryktløs
- Nynorsk: fryktlaus
- Old English: unforht
- Ottoman Turkish: قورقوسز (korkusuz)
- Persian: نترس (fa) (natars)
- Plautdietsch: forchtlooss
- Polish: nieustraszony (pl)
- Portuguese: destemido (pt), impávido (pt)
- Russian: бесстра́шный (ru) (besstrášnyj), неустраши́мый (ru) (neustrašímyj)
- Sanskrit: वीतभी (sa) (vītabhī)
- Serbo-Croatian: neustràšiv (sh), неустрашив
- Slovak: nebojácny
- Spanish: intrépido (es), impávido (es), sin miedo
- Swedish: orädd (sv)
- Telugu: నిర్భయము (te) (nirbhayamu), భయములేని (te) (bhayamulēni)
- Turkish: korkusuz (tr), yılmaz (tr)
- Ukrainian: безстра́шний (uk) (bezstrášnyj)
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