What's the difference between earless and fearless?
Earless
Definition:
(a.) Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since his debut 45 years ago Doraemon has become one of Asia’s best-loved animated characters – but in the eyes of some Chinese media the chubby, earless cat with the gaping smile is now on a mission to corrupt the nation’s youth.
(2) More than six decades ago, travel writer Norman Lewis described the mutts of Mergui, a coastal city in the south, with unsparing vividness: “There are more dogs than humans; they are a slinking, evil breed, cursed with every conceivable affliction … Many were earless, partially blind and had paralysed or dislocated limbs.” For now, there is no killing – just breeding Ye Naung Thein The situation has not improved – and is arguably most acute in Yangon, the country’s rapidly developing commercial capital with a population of some five million.
(3) In more primitive earless grasshoppers pleural chordotonal organs are found in place of auditory organs in the first abdominal segment.
Fearless
Definition:
(a.) Free from fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) She rather fearlessly implied that "women who make lots of money from illicit sex" should forfeit the right to freedom of expression.
(2) They are fearless because there are so many of them."
(3) He was a lateral and fearless thinker for whom the presentation of ideas was like a game of intellectual charades, with a few clues as to the meaning of the work thrown in every now and again.
(4) I mean he did thousands of songs and obviously he didn’t get every single thing right, but he was fearless.
(5) Fearless and independent Ethics Committees have considerable influence on both the design and implementation of clinical research, and on the topics of allowable research in which infants and children will be involved.
(6) He was fearless and driven, creating music quickly, and without ever stopping to wonder whether his push for new sounds would alienate his audience."
(7) She travelled to the UK three times in 2009, the year her second album, Fearless, became the biggest seller in the US.
(8) In a memo to AP staff, AP President Gary Pruitt remembered Niedringhaus as "spirited, intrepid and fearless, with a raucous laugh that we will always remember."
(9) "The events of July 2011 [when the Guardian reported that Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked by the News of the World] have demonstrated that vigorous and fearless responsible journalism is vital for public interest.
(10) "The further away from the road the more fearless the chimps got," he added.
(11) Wesley Snipes is fearless Facebook Twitter Pinterest The actor elicited as many gasps as he did laughs in introducing Lee while speaking in a put-on thick African accent.
(12) Hillary Clinton stands for everything I admire and everything I want to be – compassionate, fearless, sincere,” said Biira, who now works at Heifer International.
(13) In a letter to the director general, Tony Hall, coordinated by Labour’s Pat McFadden, a cross-party group of MPs and MEPs calls on the corporation to “resist attempts at political interference”, and “report fearlessly and impartially” on the negotiations as Britain leaves the European Union .
(14) He has shown giant dignity, and like all of us he may not be faultless but he's certainly fearless.
(15) Yet this impression of youthful fearlessness is a little deceptive.
(16) I speak only for myself when I say I am adventurous, independent, and perhaps a little too fearless sometimes.
(17) That such a popular drama does this so fearlessly is rather magnificent.
(18) Good-looking and apparently fearless, he would swoop in to visit German troops in Afghanistan looking like an extra from Top Gun in aviator shades, flight suit and desert boots.
(19) I felt at home in the journalistic tribe and encouraged by the apparent fearlessness with which they expressed their opinions.
(20) I would want them to know that they too need to be bold, courageous and fearless, just as everybody else, male or female, who defied the odds to follow their dreams.