Dauntless meaning

Adjective: dauntless

Pronunciation: (dont-lus)

Dauntless meaning: Invulnerable to fear or intimidation

Synonyms: audacious, intrepid, brave, fearless

Quotations: William Shakespeare – Yield not thy neck to fortune’s yoke, but let thy dauntless mind still ride in triumph over all mischance.

Ambrose Bierce – A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in heaven. Even the great and good Andrew Carnegie has made his profession of faith in the matter. Carnegie the dauntless has uttered his call to battle: “The brokers are parasites all!” Carnegie, Carnegie, you’ll never prevail; Keep the wind of your slogan to belly your sail, go back to your isle of perpetual brume, silence your pibroch, doff tartan and plume: Ben Lomond is calling his son from the fray -Fly, fly from the region of Wall Street away!

Thomas Gray – Some village Hampden, that with dauntless breast, the little tyrant of his fields withstood; some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, some Cromwell guiltless of his country’s blood.

Veronica Roth – “Dauntless,” he says. I was born abnegation. I was planning on leaving dauntless and becoming faction less. But I met her, and I felt like maybe I could make something more of my decision.

Mark Twain – Looking his last upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing she could see him now, abroad on the wild sea, facing peril and death with a dauntless heart, going to his doom with a grim smile on his lips.

Sample sentences:

1. Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set, and blew.
2. They have been quoted as dauntless explorers of this era.
3. We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.
4. I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one?
5. He is remarkable in the ship for his gentleness, and the mildness of his discipline added to his well known integrity and dauntless courage, made me desirous to engage him.
6. The proprietor of the grocery store on the corner was bidding a silent farewell to a tomato which even he, though a dauntless optimist, had been compelled to recognize as having outlived its utility.
7. I have read an awesome book titled dauntless travel in wheelchair last week.
8. He was a dauntless hero for us. He inspired us by his great achievements and hard work.
9. We all were surprised by the dauntless valour of their soldiers. They have performed breath taking acts.
10. We need to walk in the footsteps of our dauntless leaders.

Noun: dauntlessness

Pronunciation: (dont-lus-nus)

Dauntlessness meaning: Resolute courageousness or absolutely invulnerable to fear.

Synonyms: intrepidity

Adverb: dauntlessly

Pronunciation: (dont-lus-lee)

Dauntlessly meaning: Without fear

Synonyms: intrepidly, fearlessly

Sample sentences:

1. Dauntlessly, she led the troops into combat. She was a brave soldier.
2. She determined to do her best with the dauntlessness of young ambition.
3. His dauntlessness and wild desire to visit that island, helped him in reaching the destination.