unharmed

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Germanic *un-

Proto-West Germanic *un-

Old English un-

Middle English un-

English un-

English harmed

English unharmed

From un- + harmed.

Adjective

unharmed (comparative more unharmed, superlative most unharmed)

1. Which has not suffered harm; which has not been injured or damaged.
   • 1996 May 18, Howard Rosenberg, “‘Ruby Ridge’: A Tragedy or an Inevitable End?”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 November 2025:

     The oldest Weaver girls, Sara, 16, and Rachel, 10, were unharmed, as was their infant sister, Elisheba, whom Vicki had been holding when a sniper’s bullet crashed into her head.

   • 2026, “Fire at the Ross Farm”, in Pamela K. Schultz, editor, Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 38:

     A dozen rams as well as other livestock animals that were housed in a different part of the farm were unharmed by the fire.

Synonyms

• in one piece, safe and sound, unhurt, uninjured, unscathed

Translations

which has not suffered harm — see also unscathed

• Bulgarian: невреди́м (bg) (nevredím)
• Czech: nedotčený (cs), nezraněný
• Dutch: ongedeerd (nl), onbeschadigd (nl)
• French: indemne (fr)
• Galician: ileso
• German: unversehrt (de), ungeschoren (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἀβλαβής (ablabḗs), ἀσινής (asinḗs)

• Italian: illeso (it), incolume (it), indenne (it), intatto (it), senza un graffio, sano e salvo
• Japanese: 無事な (ja) (ぶじな, buji na)
• Korean: 무사하다 (ko) (musahada)
• Latin: illaesus, incolumis
• Portuguese: ileso (pt), incólume (pt)
• Russian: невреди́мый (ru) (nevredímyj), в це́лости и сохра́нности (v célosti i soxránnosti)
• Spanish: ileso (es), incólume (es)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: زیانسز (ziyansız)