unhurtfuladj.
(un- prefix1 1.)
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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
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Cor. v. f. xv In vnhurtefull manners, playne, pure, and without all counterfaictyng.
?1570 T. Drant Two Serm. G vij That..the Wolfe [might] become an vnhurtfull neighbour to the Lambe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 425 You imagine me to vnhurtfull an opposite. View more context for this quotation
a1680 S. Butler Humorist in Char. A Humorist is..some out-lying Whimsie of Bedlam, that being tame and unhurtful is suffered to go at Liberty.
1712 R. Blackmore Creation iv. 170 Whence shoots..the falling Star, And Flames unhurtful hovering dance in Air?
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. ix. 60 All that is wished for..is, that she may be made unhurtful.
a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) I. 311 When happy superstition, gabbling eld; Holds her unhurtful gambols.
Derivatives
unˈhurtfully adv.
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the world > action or operation > safety > [adverb] > harmlessly
harmlessly1561
wronglesslya1586
inoffensively1598
innoxiously1646
innocuously1650
unafflictinglya1711
unhurtfully1725
uninjuriously1881
unharmfully1888
1725 A. Pope Corr. 14 Sept. (1956) II. 321 To laugh at others as innocently and as unhurtfully as at ourselves.
unˈhurtfulness n.
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the world > action or operation > safety > [noun] > safety or lack of risk or harm
underingnessa1300
unnoyingnessa1500
unhurtfulness1549
harmlessness1596
safeness1607
inoffensiveness1641
innocuousness1644
innocency1665
innoxiousness1667
safety1689
undangerousness1817
innocence1828
dangerlessnessa1834
innocuity1855
uninjuriousness1860
1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Cor. vi. f. xvv Your vnhurtefulnes, shal condemne theyr vnclennes.
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