Synonyms of dauntless

dauntless

adjective

ˈdȯnt-ləs 

as in courageous

feeling or displaying no fear by temperament

dauntless heroes who are inclined to rush to danger, not away from it

Synonyms & Similar Words

• courageous
• fearless
• brave
• valiant
• heroic
• gallant
• bold
• adventurous
• undaunted
• intrepid
• manful
• valorous
• gutsy
• foolish
• impulsive
• resolute
• stalwart
• stout
• daring
• stouthearted
• lionhearted
• reckless
• Spartan
• gutty
• undauntable
• doughty
• spirited
• determined
• hardy
• unflinching
• undismayed
• greathearted
• plucky
• undeterred
• unswerving
• spunky
• venturous
• impetuous
• mad
• audacious
• venturesome
• adventuresome
• mettlesome
• foolhardy
• gritty
• dashing
• insane
• daredevil
• brazen
• imprudent
• game
• lunatic
• heedless
• thoughtless
• hotheaded
• unafraid
• madcap
• overconfident
• gamy
• firm
• nutty
• hasty
• crazy
• headlong
• incautious
• rash
• wild
• reassured
• brash
• overbold
• comforted
• encouraged
• emboldened
• half-witted
• precipitate
• heartened

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• timorous
• yellow
• fearful
• timid
• coward
• pusillanimous
• cowardly
• unheroic
• dastardly
• spiritless
• craven
• anxious
• diffident
• ungallant
• nerveless
• apprehensive
• gutless
• scary
• nervous
• fainthearted
• cautious
• shy
• spineless
• careful
• mousy
• prudent
• chicken
• afraid
• uncourageous
• poor-spirited
• skittish
• unadventurous
• frightened
• terrified
• heedful
• weakhearted
• startled
• chickenhearted
• unnerved
• lily-livered
• poltroon
• scared
• agitated
• upset
• milk-livered
• disturbed
• chicken-livered
• horrified
• shocked
• panicked
• disquieted
• perturbed
• worried
• weak
• spooked
• concerned
• dismayed
• disconcerted
• appalled
• wimpy
• unmanly
• panic-stricken
• terrorized

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dauntless

The self-belief that drove her to be a champion on ice is no better highlighted than in her dauntless piercing experience. — Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026

The Washington Post had tremendous glamour (Ben Bradlee, Woodward and Bernstein, Sally Quinn, its dauntless owner Katherine Graham) and clout, and this was a resource the editors and writers in Book World could draw upon for their own purposes. — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026

Yet stocks are at all-time highs Monday, dauntless even in the face of a major week of catalysts that includes earnings results from five of the Magnificent Seven companies, and a Federal Reserve meeting later this week. — Sarah Min, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2025

Anyone can give us a new rendition of Dracula, but only the most dauntless artist would attempt their own interpretation of such a totemic version of Stoker’s creation. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024

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