unflinching.

Remaining firm and steady when facing something painful, difficult, or frightening.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• unflinching courage
• an unflinching account

On the page

Her unflinching account left no room for the committee's polite evasions.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Comparative more unflinching; superlative most unflinching when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character. Commonness: moderately common.