undismayed

English

Etymology

un- +‎ dismayed

Adjective

undismayed (comparative more undismayed, superlative most undismayed)

1. Not dismayed; hopeful; calm.
   • 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[.]