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unfearing

unfearing adjective: without fearing.

Adjective

unfearing (comparative more unfearing, superlative most unfearing)

  1. Without fearing.
    • The little Dog learned, without more ado, And soon could sit upright and walk upright too; In deepest waters unfearing could spring, And whatever was lost could speedily bring.1850, Edward Livermore, Phebe, The Blackberry Girl
    • What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave peddlers, all bowed to the ground with their packs; […]1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 129

Forms of unfearing

comparativemore unfearing
superlativemost unfearing

Origin of unfearing

From un- + fearing.

Words formed from unfearing

Questions about unfearing

What does unfearing mean?
Unfearing means without fearing.
What part of speech is unfearing?
Unfearing is an adjective.

Words near unfearing in the dictionary

  1. unfear'd
  2. unfearable
  3. unfeared
  4. unfearful
  5. unfearfully
  6. unfearing
  7. unfearingly
  8. unfearingness
  9. unfearsome
  10. unfeary
  11. unfeasibilities

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