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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
undaunted
adjective
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undaunted courage
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At first he had no press but, undaunted, wrote the paper by hand!
▪ Hills, however, is undaunted.
▪ Our team of ballot counters, undaunted by the mammoth task before them, faithfully recorded your favorites.
▪ Paul Lexington seemed, as ever, undaunted by the small audience.
▪ Roeser, undaunted, refuses to panic.
▪ So, intellectually unfashionable but undaunted, the idea of Utopia abandoned the world altogether and was launched into space.
▪ This is a disappointment, but he remains undaunted.
▪ Unconvinced, the battalion marched out of the city, but the undaunted colonel followed, arguing as he went.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Undaunted

Undaunted \Un*daunt"ed\, a. Not daunted; not subdued or depressed by fear.
--Shak.

Syn: Bold; fearless; brave; courageous; intrepid. [1913 Webster] -- Un*daunt"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*daunt"ed*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
undaunted

mid-15c., with reference to horses, "untamed, not broken in," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of daunt (v.). In reference to persons, "intrepid," it is recorded from 1580s.

Wiktionary
undaunted

a. 1 Showing courage and resolution. 2 Not shaken, discouraged or disheartened.

WordNet
undaunted
  1. adj. unshaken in purpose; "wholly undismayed by the commercial failure of the three movies he had made" [syn: undismayed, unshaken]

  2. resolutely courageous; "undaunted in the face of death"

Usage examples of "undaunted".

Undaunted, Dex unwrapped a wad of bubble gum and popped it into his mouth.

And it must be owned that if, in other circumstances, the species of courtesy rendered to the King of England by so many warriors, from whom he claimed no natural allegiance, had in it something that might have been thought humiliating, yet the nature and cause of the war was so fitted to his pre-eminently chivalrous character and renowned feats in arms, that claims which might elsewhere have been urged were there forgotten, and the brave did willing homage to the bravest, in an expedition where the most undaunted and energetic courage was necessary to success.

They had been foiled hi then: attempt to kill Colonel Baraka by his undaunted courage in facing down his attackers.

Undaunted, Thomas started the counterpulsation device he had positioned before the operation.

But the most warlike and powerful tribes of the Huns maintained, in their adverse fortune, the undaunted spirit of their ancestors.

Undaunted, he carried his expostulations out into the street, still trying to persuade her to change her mind even as the packtrain formed up in front of his shop.

Undaunted, Tydeus challenged them all to tests of strength and beat them all with ease, in each event, Athena urged him on with so much winning force.

As the ship careers in fearful singleness through the solitudes of ocean, as the bird mingles among clouds and storms, and wings its way, a mere speck, across the pathless fields of air, so the Indian holds his course, silent, solitary, but undaunted, through the boundless bosom of the wilderness.

Valtrina Darabesq opened Villa Mirasol to three parties in rapid succession to demonstrate that the erjin uprising had left her undaunted.

Finndali had already begun to dress Aarundel down, but the undaunted Elf nocked another arrow with cool dispatch.

An intrepid missionary, undaunted by the ill-success that had attended all previous endeavours to conciliate the savages, and believing much in the efficacy of female influence, introduced among them his young and beautiful wife, the first white woman who had ever visited their shores.

Undaunted, I burst out with questions like whether he preferred Panama Red or Acapulco Gold and how the fuck did we manage to fit inside of a tiny post office box and other things a propos a naive young semiliterate dropout hippy writer.

While the trumpets sounded to arms, the undaunted courage of the Goths was confirmed by the mutual obligation of a solemn oath.

And as one in slumber walking, Pale and haggard, but undaunted, From the wigwam Hiawatha Came and wrestled with Mondamin.

On foot, alone, undaunted, high-souled, with but a simple sword, and that no trenchant blade of the Perrillo brand, a shield, but no bright polished steel one, there stoodst thou, biding and awaiting the two fiercest lions that Africa's forests ever bred!