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单词 undismayable
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undismayableadj.

Forms: see un- prefix1 and dismay v.1 and -able suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, dismay v.1, -able suffix.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + dismay v.1 + -able suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: undisˈmayable.
(un- prefix1 1b.)
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the mind > emotion > courage > fearlessness > dreadlessness > [adjective] > that cannot be dismayed
undismayablea1586
undauntable1587
unabashable1848
up-hearted1861
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. viii. sig. Mm7v Neither could danger be dreadfull to Amphialus his vndismayable courage.
1940 W. Faulkner Hamlet iii. ii. 187 The face.., bent, in profile or three-quarters, sober and undismayable.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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