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unfazed

/ʌnˈfeɪzd/

unfazed adjective: not frightened or hesitant; undaunted; not put off; unimpressed.

Adjective

unfazed (comparative more unfazed, superlative most unfazed)

  1. Not frightened or hesitant; undaunted; not put off; unimpressed.
    • After stumbling and landing on her face, the toddler picked herself up and continued unfazed.
    • Say, but isn't Annie Watson a dandy witness? She testified as straight as a book. And she stood a hot cross-examination unphased.1885 November 9, “They Talk About It”, in St. Paul Daily Globe, St. Paul, MN, page 5
  2. (archaic) Undamaged.
    • The tall man throughout was "unphased"—the dewy and least compact one surrendered!1855 December, T. B. Thorpe, “Remembrances of the Mississippi”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume xii, number lxvii, New York, NY, page 35
    • Being a lad of a little upwards of a century, and maintaining, as all widowers do, that I was unfazed by time […]1874, Moses Adams, What I Did With My Fifty Millions, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., page 106

Examples of unfazed in a sentence

  • The Johnnie O'Briens and the Barney O'Rourkes were there, too, apparently unfazed by the magnificence of the surroundings.1889 March 11, “Social and Personal”, in Washington Critic, Washington, DC, page 2:
  • When outsiders heard the melodies of Johann Sebastian Bach in a single-voice, monophonic square wave, no harmony, they were universally unfazed.1984, Steven Levy, chapter 1, in Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution:
  • Stu couldn't believe I was so unfazed by the whole incident, though inwardly I resolved that I wouldn't let this bastard have the last laugh.2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 131:
  • While beachgoers seemed mostly unfazed, the encounter prompted city officials to deploy more drones, boats and helicopters to monitor the city’s beaches.2023 August 13, Hurubie Meko, “After Queens Shark Bite, Drones Buzz Over Unfazed Beachgoers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Antonyms of unfazed

Forms of unfazed

comparativemore unfazed
superlativemost unfazed

Origin of unfazed

From un- + fazed.

Questions about unfazed

What does unfazed mean?
Unfazed means not frightened or hesitant; undaunted; not put off; unimpressed.
How do you use unfazed in a sentence?
The Johnnie O'Briens and the Barney O'Rourkes were there, too, apparently unfazed by the magnificence of the surroundings.
What part of speech is unfazed?
Unfazed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce unfazed?
Unfazed is pronounced /ʌnˈfeɪzd/.

Words near unfazed in the dictionary

  1. unfawning
  2. unfaxable
  3. unfaxed
  4. unfazable
  5. unfazeable
  6. unfazed
  7. UNFCCC
  8. unfealty
  9. unfear
  10. unfear'd
  11. unfearable

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