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nondamaging

nondamaging

3.5
Something that does not harm people or things
  • adjective
  • /nɒnˈdæmɪdʒɪŋ/
translation icon : no dañino
  • A nondamaging alternative?

Examples

  • The company offers nondamaging cleaning products that are safe to use around pets.

  • She prefers nondamaging hair treatments because they keep her hair healthy.

  • Such sentiment cannot be written off as brief, nondamaging "jokes," as these remarks gel into a larger collective discourse of media colonialism.

    Academic text (2008)
  • We could not compile a list of nondamaging pathogens comparable to our long list of insects because new introductions of fungi and other microorganisms are rarely detected and identified if they cause no damage.

    Academic text (2010)
  • The lawyer argued that the nondamaging remarks should not be taken seriously.

Synonyms

harmless
vsnondamaging
231 1.0

Not able to hurt people or things

focuses on not causing harm rather than inability to cause it
noninjurious
vsnondamaging
3.9

Not likely to hurt people, animals, or things

is the same in meaning but uses a different root word

Antonyms

80 3.1

Likely to cause harm to a person or to their things

How Damaging

destructive
243 4.2
damaging
80 3.1
nondamaging
3.5

Surface Forms

nondamaging positive

Morphology

nondamaging = damaging (transparent) = non + damage + ing

Formed by adding the negative prefix 'non-' to 'damaging' (damage + -ing), yielding 'not causing damage' which is directly derivable.

Etymology

The word nondamaging breaks into non- meaning 'not' and damage meaning 'harm', so it literally means 'not causing harm'.