nonafraid

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adjective

Not afraid; unafraid; fearless.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivenonafraid (comparative more nonafraid, superlative most nonafraid)

comparative more nonafraid · superlative most nonafraid

  1. Not afraid; unafraid; fearless.

    Children learn how nonafraid individuals handle situations.

    1994, Charles Schaefer, Howard L. Millman, How to Help Children with Common Problems, page 93
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    With a warm, nonafraid listener, you can move into the scary material much more deeply than you could alone.

    1979, Evelyn Shapiro, Barry Shapiro, The Women Say, the Men Say, page 112

    One chemist told me that because chemists learn how to limit their personal exposure to chemicals in laboratory settings, they tend to be less concerned about chemical risk generally: "chemists tend to be very nonafraid of things” because “you work with chemicals, and you learn how to deal with them.”

    2016, Alissa Cordner, Toxic Safety, page 60

Origin

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