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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unafraid
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Great Groups are inevitably forged by people unafraid of hiring people better than themselves.
▪ He reached for that door in the same mechanical, unafraid way and threw it open.
▪ He saw himself go inside, a fellow on a quiet street doing ordinary things, unafraid of being watched.
▪ Individuals with specific fears and phobias can learn to become unafraid.
▪ The Leafs were unafraid of taking gambles, willing to trade chances with their opponents.
▪ The residents themselves say they were unafraid.
▪ Upright, she was weary but unafraid.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unafraid

early 15c., from un- (1) "not" + afraid.

Wiktionary
unafraid

a. Not afraid.

WordNet
unafraid
  1. adj. oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them [syn: unafraid(p), fearless] [ant: afraid(p)]

  2. free from fear or doubt; easy in mind; "secure himself, he went out of his way to help others" [syn: secure, untroubled] [ant: insecure]

Usage examples of "unafraid".

Its lawyer was portrayed as a radical who was unafraid to use litigation to preserve history.

And, unafraid of the grimness, Ellen ran on ahead, her arms crooked back funnily because she had her hands in her pocket to keep the coconut-ice tin from rattling against the protractor, her red hair streaming a yard behind.

Town bounties were taking their reiving toll, with the headhunters unafraid to ride out in force, and no centaur guardians to challenge their trespass.

Then he let his hand fall into the strings and they fell a-tinkling sweetly, like unto the song of the winter robin, and at last he lifted his voice and sang: Still now is the stithy this morning unclouded, Nought stirs in the thorp save the yellow-haired maid A-peeling the withy last Candlemas shrouded From the mere where the moorhen now swims unafraid.

God, Teasle really wanted him bad, telling his man to shoot at likely hiding places, unafraid of hitting anyone innocent because most people would obey the announce-ment and come out to show themselves.

When the day broke, after the falling of the dreadful night, the brave or the thirsty who ventured forth saw him at his post, silent, unastonished, unafraid.

However many terrors she might have, she would be unafraid, uncowed by him.

Like Adams, Rush was without affectation and unafraid to speak his mind, sometimes to the point of tactlessness.

Her face was unafraid as she smiled at him through her glassite helmet.

The old mage was not off on some other plane meddling, or fussing scatter-brained among scrolls and librams dusty and brittle with age, but here and alert and looking completely unafraid.

He imagined himself running across fields, through woods, tireless and unafraid, in a state of exaltation, running for the joy of it, and when he approached the crest of a hill overlooking a steep drop, instead of halting, he ran faster and faster, leaping from the crest and being borne aloft on a sweep of wind, flying in the zones of the sun, and then seeing Magali, joining her in flight, swooping and curving, together weaving an endless pattern above a mighty green hill, the one from which he had leapt, and the child, too, was flying, albeit lower and less elegantly, testing itself against the air.

He chose to return to Zimbabwe, and in doing so has declared to all the world that here is a land where men of any colour, of any tribe - black or white, Mashona or Matabele - are free to live and work, unafraid and unmolested, safe in the rule of just laws.

He chose to return to Zimbabwe, and in doing so has declared to all the world that here is a land where men of any colour, of any tribe black Or white, Mashona or Matabele are free to live and wotk, unafraid and unmolested, safe in the rule of just laws After the political commercial, Peter Fungabera allowed himself a little joke.

The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

We could not indeed bring them further than the threshold of true humanity, but within their natural limits they might be made generous, free-minded, zestful, unafraid, Then, if we could but return them to your planet in the first bloom of maturity, how they would remake your world!