unstruck

Examples

• All

• Out of 359 targets recommended by the chiefs only 57 remain unstruck.

  Path to War (2003)

• When I ended my lessons, he was alive, silent but brimming with sound—what the unstruck drum suggests by its wide, stretched skin.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Even after the storm, many of the trees stood unstruck, their branches intact.

• The boxer was unharmed, with only one opponent unstruck by any blows during the match.

Synonyms

U

unscathed

vsunstruck

33 6.3

Not hurt or damaged after a bad event

is about not having been physically hit by a blow or impact

U

unhurt

vsunstruck

7 1.0

Not physically injured after an accident or dangerous event

is about not having been physically hit by a blow or impact

U

uninjured

vsunstruck

7 1.8

Not hurt physically

is about not having been physically hit by a blow or impact

U

unaffected

vsunstruck

3 3.9

Not changed or harmed by something and not showing strong feeling

is narrower, focusing on no physical hit rather than no change

U

unwounded

vsunstruck

1 4.8

Not physically hurt

is about not having been physically hit by a blow or impact

U

unbruised

vsunstruck

1 4.5

Not having any marks from being hit or pressed

is about not having been physically hit by a blow or impact

U

unscarred

vsunstruck

1 4.9

Not emotionally hurt by bad events

is literal, focusing on absence of physical blows rather than emotional effects

U

ungrazed

vsunstruck

5.7

Not having scrapes or small cuts on the skin

is about not having been physically hit by a blow or impact

U

unattacked

vsunstruck

5.8

Not harmed by an attack or threat

is about not being struck by a physical blow rather than avoiding hostile acts

How Struck

to hit

∞ 1.0

grazed

2.5

unstruck

8.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology