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unharming

unharming adjective: doing no harm.

Adjective

unharming (comparative more unharming, superlative most unharming)

  1. Doing no harm.
    • From Edgar Linton, as we have seen, Heathcliff's blows fell aside unharming, as the executioner's strokes from a legendary martyr.1883, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson, Emily Brontë
    • The snow struck the bottle, but the unharming bullet was buried half an inch to the left.1900, Owen Wister, The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories

Forms of unharming

comparativemore unharming
superlativemost unharming

Origin of unharming

From un- + harming.

Questions about unharming

What does unharming mean?
Unharming means doing no harm.
What part of speech is unharming?
Unharming is an adjective.

Words near unharming in the dictionary

  1. unharmable
  2. unharmed
  3. unharmful
  4. unharmfully
  5. unharmfulness
  6. unharming
  7. unharmonic
  8. unharmonical
  9. unharmonious
  10. unharmoniously
  11. unharmoniousness

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