nonafraid

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ afraid.

Adjective

nonafraid (comparative more nonafraid, superlative most nonafraid)

  1. Not afraid; unafraid; fearless.
    • 1979, Evelyn Shapiro, Barry Shapiro, The Women Say, the Men Say, page 112:
      With a warm, nonafraid listener, you can move into the scary material much more deeply than you could alone.
    • 1994, Charles Schaefer, Howard L. Millman, How to Help Children with Common Problems, page 93:
      Children learn how nonafraid individuals handle situations.
    • 2016, Alissa Cordner, Toxic Safety, page 60:
      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.”