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scatheless

scatheless adjective: without scathe or harm; without mischief, injury, or damage; unharmed.

Adjective

scatheless (comparative more scatheless, superlative most scatheless)

  1. Without scathe or harm; without mischief, injury, or damage; unharmed.
    • He felt like a man who has just come scatheless through some horrible crisis, and once more knows the sweet sensation of safety.1884, H. Rider Haggard, Dawn
    • The houses round about have fared better, in the main, than the mill, though none of them has come scatheless out of the fight.1915, Irvin S. Cobb, Paths of Glory
    Synonyms:
    unscathed

scatheless meaning in Tamil and Kannada

scatheless in Tamil

தீங்கு செய்யாத

scatheless in Kannada

ನಿರಪಾಯವಾಗಿ, ಹಾನಿತಟ್ಟದ, ತೊಂದರೆ ತರದ

Synonyms of scatheless

Forms of scatheless

comparativemore scatheless
superlativemost scatheless
alternative formscathless

Origin of scatheless

Inherited from Middle English scatheles (“unscathed”), a calque of Old Norse skaðlauss; equivalent to scathe + -less, or scath + -less. Compare Scots skaithless (“free of financial loss, penalty or liability”), Old Frisian skadlos, schadlos (“scatheless”), Dutch schadeloos (“harmless”), Middle Low German schadelōs, Middle High German schadelōs, Danish skadesløs (“harmless”), Swedish skadeslös (“harmless”), Icelandic skaðlaus (“harmless”).

Words formed from scatheless

Questions about scatheless

What does scatheless mean?
Scatheless means without scathe or harm; without mischief, injury, or damage; unharmed.
What is scatheless in Tamil?
Scatheless in Tamil is தீங்கு செய்யாத. See Scatheless meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is scatheless?
Scatheless is an adjective.

Words near scatheless in the dictionary

  1. scathed
  2. scathefire
  3. scathefires
  4. scatheful
  5. scathefulness
  6. scatheless
  7. scathelessly
  8. scathelessness
  9. scathely
  10. scathes
  11. scathest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scatheless (page history and authors); scatheless (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); scatheless (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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