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hurtless

UK/ˈhəːtləs/

hurtless adjective: not causing hurt; harmless.

Adjective

hurtless (comparative more hurtless, superlative most hurtless)

  1. Not causing hurt; harmless.
    • Blaming of Fortune, which such troubles threw, / And ioyd to make proofe of her crueltie / On gentle Dame, so hurtlesse, and so trew [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • […] to live as normally as possible while making every effort to learn to live the hurtless, kindly and unselfish life […]2015, Max Freedom Long, The Huna Code in Religions, page 191
  2. (obsolete) Unhurt.

Forms of hurtless

comparativemore hurtless
superlativemost hurtless

Origin of hurtless

From Middle English hurtlees, hurtles (“unhurt”), equivalent to hurt + -less.

Words formed from hurtless

Questions about hurtless

What does hurtless mean?
Hurtless means not causing hurt; harmless.
What part of speech is hurtless?
Hurtless is an adjective.
How do you pronounce hurtless?
Hurtless is pronounced /ˈhəːtləs/ (UK).

Words near hurtless in the dictionary

  1. hurtleberry
  2. hurtled
  3. hurtler
  4. hurtlers
  5. hurtles
  6. hurtless
  7. hurtlessly
  8. hurtlessness
  9. hurtlest
  10. hurtleth
  11. hurtling

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