unmalignantadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnməˈlɪɡnənt/, U.S. /ˌənməˈlɪɡnənt/ Not malignant; esp. lacking malign intent, unmalicious.
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the world > action or operation > safety > [adjective] > safe or not dangerous > safe or harmless
unshathyOE
unbalefulOE
unscathefulc1175
unscathelya1400
unscathing1437
unnoyingc1440
unshendingc1450
unnoyous1483
harmless1533
unharmful1538
unhurtful1549
dintless1558
white1567
offenceless1581
inoffensive1598
unhurting1613
illaesive1628
innocuous1631
unmalignant1633
innoxious1638
inobnoxious1659
unvenomous1659
innocent1662
unafflictinga1711
unmolesting1767
fangless1790
unharming1796
woundless1796
uninjurious1809
uninjuring1820
unmischievous1821
scarless1823
boltless1832
inoffending1853
defanged1920
non-injury1926
anodyne1933
declawed1945
1633 H. Wotton Let. in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) II. 334 Such discourse as I have taken up..among the most intelligent, and unmalignant men.
1752 J. Sterling Ep. Hon. Arthur Dobbs 64 Hail, hoary King! with unmalignant Frown, Dispensing Favors from thine awful Throne.
1796 R. Bage Hermsprong III. ix. 77 He..often smarted under the playful lash of this laughing, good-humoured, unmalignant girl.
1835 Leigh Hunt's London Jrnl. 20 June 185/2 Nature has a beautiful way of reconciling all necessities that are unmalignant.
1872 Every Sat. 9 Mar. 275/1 His vituperation was essentially of the unmalignant sort, betraying unrestraint and recklessness rather than malice.
1927 M. Sadleir Anthony Trollope 79 Fanny Trollope..had written without malice but merely with the amused high spirits of a quick-tempered, unmalignant observer.
2007 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Oct. 27/2 On the question of anti-Semitism he grants the poetry its autonomy, and finds Eliot's ‘intellectualised politics’ unmalignant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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