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unfearful

fear·ful
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [feer-fuh l]
    • /ˈfɪər fəl/
    • /ˌʌnˈfɪəfʊl /
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [feer-fuh l]
    • /ˈfɪər fəl/

Definitions of unfearful word

  • adjective unfearful causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition. 1
  • adjective unfearful feeling fear, dread, apprehension, or solicitude: fearful for his life; fearful lest he commit suicide. 1
  • adjective unfearful full of awe or reverence: fearful of the Lord. 1
  • adjective unfearful showing or caused by fear: fearful behavior. 1
  • adjective unfearful extreme in size, intensity, or badness: a fearful head cold; fearful poverty. 1
  • adjective unfearful not scared 0
See all 6 definitions of unfearful

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Origin of unfearful

First appearance:

before 1300
One of the 15% oldest English words
First recorded in 1300-50, fearful is from the Middle English word ferful. See fear, -ful

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Parts of speech for Unfearful

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Unfearful

unfearful popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 93% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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Synonyms for unfearful

adj unfearful

  • chin-up — an exercise in which a person grips an elevated bar and pulls himself or herself up until the chin is level with the bar
  • gutsy — having a great deal of courage or nerve: a gutsy lampooner of the administration.

adjective unfearful

  • herolike — Resembling or characteristic of a hero; heroic.
All 3 Synonyms of unfearful

Antonyms for unfearful

adj unfearful

  • aflutter — in or into a nervous or excited state
  • anguished — Anguished means showing or feeling great mental suffering or physical pain.
  • anxious — If you are anxious to do something or anxious that something should happen, you very much want to do it or very much want it to happen.
  • apprehensive — Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen.
  • butterflies — tremors in the stomach region due to nervousness

adjective unfearful

  • cowhearted — cowardly.
  • jellyfish — any of various marine coelenterates of a soft, gelatinous structure, especially one with an umbrellalike body and long, trailing tentacles; medusa.
  • rabbity — any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
  • wrecker — a person or thing that wrecks.
All 23 Antonyms of unfearful

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