Adjective: bindaas
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more bindaas |
| Superlative | most bindaas |
Sample Sentences
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'So … how come you aren't scared?'
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Sheila laughed, 'Who me? Forget it. I'm far too bindaas. […] [2005, Shobhaa De, Strange Obsession, Penguin Books India, →ISBN, page 72:]
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Well, I play Sonia, extremely modern, hip, bindaas, tough and can take care of herself. My look suits the character. [2008 October 6, Minissha Lamba, quotee, Outlook, volume 48, number 40, →OCLC, page 80:]
Adjectives inflected like bindaas
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Transliteration of Bombay Hindi बिंदास (bindās), from Marathi बिनधास्त (bindhāsta, literally “without fear”).