undismayed

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ dismayed.

Adjective

undismayed (comparative more undismayed, superlative most undismayed)

  1. Not dismayed; calm and undaunted.
    • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 288:
      But was not that the cobweb which she had wrecked? Had she without knowing turned back, or was it another web? Calmly, and again undismayed, the spider was industriously respinning in repair.
    • 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 46:
      Undismayed he continued to flail with the broken half of it, denting many a helmet[.]
    • 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 46:
      So the noble prince proceeded undismayed
      up fells and screes, along narrow footpaths
      and ways where they were forced into single file,
      ledges on cliffs above lairs of water-monsters.
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