unthreatening

Examples

• All

• These notifications, on the headed paper of the Berlin Jewish Organisation, used a formal, unthreatening tone.

  Academic text (2010)

• The room was filled with the pleasant smell of candles just snuffed, a smoke that was sweet and wholly unthreatening.

  Fiction book (2002)

• "Henry," she said in an unthreatening voice, which surprised me, "it is a sin to lie."

  Fiction book (1994)

• "The voice was pleasant and entirely unthreatening.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Quite an unthreatening environment, wouldn't you say?

  How to Be (2008)

• The existence of such an organization should be completely unthreatening to all atheists.

  Blog text (10)

• The avatar that filled the screen was roundish and unthreatening.

  Fiction book (1999)

• In her little room at the top of the house, my daughter slept, and outside was the snow, gentle and unthreatening and more a reminder that winter was over than that some new and tremendous difficulty lay ahead.

  Fiction book (1994)

• "Escapists" go to the movies to lose, in an unthreatening environment, the map that locates them in a determined world and a defining set of life circumstances.

  Academic text (1993)

• Minstrel humor was more unqualifiedly enjoyable because it was both unsubtle and unthreatening.

  Academic text (1990)

Synonyms

N

nonthreatening

vsunthreatening

4 3.8

Not likely to make someone feel afraid or unsafe

is about not causing fear by appearance or manner

U

unoffensive

vsunthreatening

1 3.7

Something that does not upset people and is harmless

focuses on lack of fear caused by manner or appearance

U

unmenacing

vsunthreatening

4.6

Not looking or sounding dangerous

is the general idea of not causing fear rather than just looks

U

unalarming

vsunthreatening

3.2

Not causing fear or worry

emphasizes absence of harm in behaviour or appearance

U

unoffending

vsunthreatening

4.8

Not making people angry or hurting them

is used specifically for not producing fear by look or act

N

nonoffensive

vsunthreatening

3.5

Does not attack or harm and serves only to defend

is about not giving a scary or harmful impression to others

Antonyms

I

intimidating

93 5.3

Making someone feel afraid, nervous, or less confident

T

threatening

65 3.6

Showing that something bad or dangerous may happen

How Threatening

dangerous

∞ 1.5

menacing

1 5.0

unthreatening

4 3.2

harmless

231 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology