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Unhurt

Definition: Unhurt

Unhurt

Adjective

1. Wholly unharmed.

2. Free from danger or injury; "the children were found safe and sound".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unhurt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)


Synonyms: Unhurt

Synonyms: safe and sound (adj), unharmed (adj), unscathed (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unhurt

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Preservation

Preserved; Verb: unimpaired, unbroken, uninjured, unhurt, unsinged, unmarred; safe, safe and sound; intact, with a whole skin.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unhurt

English words defined with "unhurt": HurtlessInviolatedScot-free. (references)
Specialty definitions using "unhurt": Rodrigo. (references)

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Modern Usage: Unhurt

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Stay Unhurt Look Alert (1955)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unhurt

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Spain

The group has carried out numerous bombings against Spanish Government facilities and economic targets, including a car bomb assassination attempt on then-opposition leader Aznar in 1995, in which his armored car was destroyed but he was unhurt. (references)

Togo

Ghana-based armed dissidents launched a new commando attack on military sites in Lome in January 1994. President Eyadema was unhurt, and the attack and subsequent reaction by the Togolese armed forces resulted in hundreds of deaths, mostly civilian. (references)

Human Rights

Brazil

The hijacker was apprehended unhurt, but arrived dead at the hospital after police riding in the ambulance allegedly strangled him. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unhurt

"Unhurt" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unhurt" is used about 120 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%12029,358

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unhurt

Language Translations for "unhurt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shëndoshë e mirë (safe and sound). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏غير ضار (innocuous). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

невредим (harmless, safe, safe and sound, scatheless, scot free, uncrippled, undamaged, unharmed, unimpaired, uninjured, unscarred, unscathed, whole), здрав и читав (safe, safe and sound, unharmed). (various references)

   

Czech

  

nezranìný (unscathed). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

vahingoittumaton (safe and sound, undamaged, uninjured, unscathed), ehjin nahoin (unscathed, with a whole skin). (various references)

   

French

  

sain et sauf (unharmed, unscathed), indemne (unscathed). (various references)

   

German

  

unverletzt (safe, unbroken, undamaged, unharmed, unhurtly, uninjured, unscathed, unwounded). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σώοσ (sound, unharmed), αβλαβήσ (harmless, hurtless, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, inviolate, scatheless, scot free, undamaged, unharmed, unimpaired, unoffending, unscathed), απλήγωτοσ (uninjured, woundless). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sértetlen (intact, inviolate, scatheless, scot free, scot-free, sound, unbroken, unharmed, unimpaired, uninjured, unscathed, whole). (various references)

   

Italian

  

salvo (apart from, bar, barring, but, except, except for, other, other than, safe, save, saving, subject, subject to, unharmed, without, without prejudice), indenne (scot free, undamaged, unharmed), incolume (safe, unharmed, whole), illeso (intact, safe, unharmed, uninjured, unscathed, unwounded). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

無傷 (flawless, perfect, sound, spotless, uninjured, unwounded). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

むきず (flawless, perfect, sound, spotless, uninjured, unwounded). (various references)

   

Manx

  

slane (absolute, absolute of ruler, absolutely, chin-chin, complete, entire, fully, gross, healed, intact, integer, inviolate, perfect, sane, sheer, thorough, total, unbroken, undivided, unexpurgated as edition; good bye, unexpurgated; good bye, unharmed, unimpaired, utter, well, whole), neughortit (unharmed). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urtunhay

   

Portuguese

  

sem ferimentos (uninjured), são e salvo (safe, scatheless, unharmed, uninjured), incólume (scatheless, sound, unharmed, uninjured, unscathed), ileso (safe, scatheless, scot-free, sound, unharmed, unimpaired, uninjured, unscathed). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

целый и невредимый. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nepovređen (inviolate, unharmed, uninjured, unscathed). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ileso (scot free, unharmed, uninjured, unscathed, unwounded, whole). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

oskadd (safe, scot free, unharmed, unscathed). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yarasız (unscathed), sağ salim (safe and sound, safely, scot free, soundly, unharmed, unscathed), incinmemiş (uninjured, unscathed). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

цілий (all, entire, full, livelong, one, whole), неушкоджений (harmless). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không bị thương (uninjured), không bị đau; vô sự. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Unhurt

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

indemnis, inlaesum, innoxia, innoxias, innoxii, innoxio, innoxium, innoxius, integer, inviolati, salvus. (various references)

Old English450-1100

hal. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: Unhurt

Misspellings

"Unhurt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nuthurst, Uhura, Ukhrul, unchurch, unher, unherit, unhit. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Unhurt"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unhurt" (pronounced unher"t)
3-h er" thurt.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unhurt

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "h-n-r-t-u-u"

-2 letters: hunt, hurt, runt, ruth, thru, turn.

-3 letters: hun, hut, nth, nut, run, rut, tun, urn.

-4 letters: nu, uh, un, ut.

 Words containing the letters "h-n-r-t-u-u"
 

+1 letter: untruth.

 

+2 letters: untruths.

 

+3 letters: anthurium, cothurnus, ruthenium.

 

+4 letters: anthuriums, outrushing, rutheniums, thunderous, ultrahuman, untruthful.

 

+5 letters: hurtfulness, outhumoring, ruthfulness, underbought, underthrust, unretouched, unrighteous, upthrusting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unhurt


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 68 75 72 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    ....    ..-    .-.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01101000 01110101 01110010 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#104 &#117 &#114 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0068 0075 0072 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

558074878486

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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