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frightless

frightless adjective: free from fright; fearless.

Adjective

frightless (comparative more frightless, superlative most frightless)

  1. Free from fright; fearless.
    • Reggie woke her from a frightless slumber years ago with a tarantula in a shoebox, disappointed when it didn't make her scream.2001, Stephen Beachy, Distortion
    • Yes, yes, yes, even as he'd tried to sleep next to her, agonizing over the plight of the frightless union, [...]2005, B. Elwin Sherman, Toolkit in Paradise

Forms of frightless

comparativemore frightless
superlativemost frightless

Origin of frightless

From fright + -less.

Questions about frightless

What does frightless mean?
Frightless means free from fright; fearless.
What part of speech is frightless?
Frightless is an adjective.

Words near frightless in the dictionary

  1. frightfully
  2. frightfulness
  3. frightfulnesses
  4. frighting
  5. frightings
  6. frightless
  7. frightly
  8. frightmare
  9. frightmares
  10. frightment
  11. frights

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