Word.ws English Dictionary

fearnaught

fearnaught noun: a fearless person.

Noun

fearnaught (plural fearnaughts)

  1. A fearless person.
  2. A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnought
    • [T]he crew however stand it tolerable well, each being cloathed with a Fearnought jacket, a pair of trowsers of the same and a large cap made of canvas & baize, these together with an additional glass of brandy every morning enables them to bear the cold without flinshing.1772, James Cook, The Journals, Second Voyage, 4 January
  3. (broadly) A warm garment, especially one made of this cloth.

Forms of fearnaught

pluralfearnaughts
alternative formfearnought

Origin of fearnaught

From fear + naught.

Questions about fearnaught

What does fearnaught mean?
Fearnaught means a fearless person.
What part of speech is fearnaught?
Fearnaught is a noun.
What is the plural of fearnaught?
The plural of fearnaught is fearnaughts.

Words near fearnaught in the dictionary

  1. fearmongerings
  2. fearmongers
  3. fearmonging
  4. fearmongs
  5. Fearn
  6. fearnaught
  7. fearnaughts
  8. Fearnhead
  9. Fearnley
  10. fearnought
  11. fearnoughts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fearnaught (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “fearnaught.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fearnaught. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.