unmolestingadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnməˈlɛstɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌənməˈlɛstɪŋ/ That does not molest or disturb (a person, animal, etc.).
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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
1767 W. Dodd tr. Pindar Odes in Poems 133 Your fortune's column stands more sure..Than that to heaven its head which rears, And tempests unmolesting dares.
1791 E. K. Mathews Mem. Scots Heiress III. 9 In the neighbouring church-yard..I may occupy a place unmolested and unmolesting.
1832 S. Turner Sacred Hist. World I. ix. 217 The dreaded shark is..rather an unmolesting giant, except towards its appointed food.
1891 Daily News 30 Dec. 5/1 Living their quiet useful lives, unmolesting and unmolested.
1936 Pennsylvania Hist. 3 244 The unmolesting kindliness of the Quakers.
2000 J. Medina Genetic Inferno iv. 143 He had to solve the problem about how an unmolesting bear might continue to exist if no one was perceiving it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1767