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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
undeterred
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But even those who'd heard the news seemed undeterred.
▪ Go for broke, and be undeterred in your search for the possible dream.
▪ Haverford took a new sheet of paper and continued to compose, undeterred.
▪ Once again, the supporters were undeterred by facts.
▪ Sotheby's was undeterred by the knowledge that the picture had been offered around.
▪ The cuckoo continued calling in the far recesses of the wood undeterred by the surrounding stillness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
undeterred

c.1600, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of deter (v.).

Wiktionary
undeterred

a. not deterred or put off; undiscouraged

WordNet
undeterred

adj. not deterred; "pursued his own path...undeterred by lack of popular appreciation and understanding"- Osbert Sitwell [syn: undiscouraged]

Usage examples of "undeterred".

Undeterred, he approached Lady Litton who maintained a casual air as she fanned herself.

The micro fragments from the firecracker round had cleared the crest and face of the ridge, but a Molt somewhere out there, far from the immediate battle scene, continued to snipe at the jeep undeterred.

The islanders acquiesced in the decision with stolid patience, but, undeterred by the consequent insecurity of tenure, settled as squatters in the unappropriated lands.

Human was coming off the bench with fire in his eyes, undeterred by extraneous and unpreventable problems.

Remember that my mind was filled with memories of weird things, that I often found myself thinking of that mystic light which Hassan of Aleppo had called the light of El-Medineh - that light whereby, undeterred by distance, he claimed to be able to trace the whereabouts of any of the relics of the Prophet.

Their grisly arms extended, their yellow fingernails glinting in the sunlight, their thin lips quivering in anticipation of their next meal, saliva pouring from their mouths, they advanced on the Technics, row after ravenous row, undeterred even when an arm or leg was shattered by a dumdum bullet.

Arlen Sears to him like a buzzard on dead meat, sucking him in like so much quicksand, and distracting the crowd sufficiently to allow Rare to come on undetected and undeterred .

The lead F-14 had flown back in front of him and turned to the left again, but the 747 was still descending in a straight line for Marseille, undeterred, as the request for immediate shootdown authority was once again flashed to the President.

Once a group of big red kangaroos had bounced by, stopping to munch on some barrel cactus, undeterred by the spines.

Undeterred even by the opening doors and the threatening shouts of the men scrambling out of the Wolseley, he jumped clear over its gleaming black bonnet.

But Tiglari, the skilled jungle hunter, was undeterred by the hideous dubieties before him.

Undeterred by failure, the Metro Commission wants more federal funds to extend Metrorail as far north as Joe Robbie Stadium and as far south as Homesteada plan as audacious as it is deranged.

Dr Gool and the inspector haggled and argued in a goodnatured fashion, undeterred by pleasantries from the wags in the crowd, until finally a parliamentary messenger was sent for.

Undeterred, he next called the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, or DMV, and gave the woman's name, last known address, and Social Security number, which in Virginia was also the driver's license number.

Undeterred, they thumbed through a yellowed statute book and eventually charged me with a little-known 1621 law about 'Permissioning a horse and carte to be driven by personn of low moral turpithtude', but with the 'horse and carte' bit crossed out and 'car' written in instead –.