hurtless

English

Etymology

From hurt +‎ -less.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhəːtləs/

Adjective

hurtless (comparative more hurtless, superlative most hurtless)

1. Not causing hurt; harmless.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Blaming of Fortune, which such troubles threw, / And ioyd to make proofe of her crueltie / On gentle Dame, so hurtlesse, and so trew [...].

   • 2015, Max Freedom Long, The Huna Code in Religions, page 191:

     […] to live as normally as possible while making every effort to learn to live the hurtless, kindly and unselfish life […]

2. (obsolete) Unhurt.

Derived terms

• hurtlessly
• hurtlessness

Anagrams

• Selhurst, hustlers, ruthless, sluthers