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Unharmed

adj.resilient, hopefuleveryday

What it means

Safe from injury, damage, or lasting ill effect.

Reach for it when Reassuring readers that a person, animal, place, or object escaped danger.

All four kayakers reached the downstream landing tired but unharmed.

Choose between these

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  • everyday

    all right

    informal reassurance is the goal

    not when too vague for an official incident report

  • warm

    safe

    reassurance about present security matters

    not when can be safe now after earlier harm

  • professional

    undamaged

    an object retains physical condition

    not when sounds impersonal when referring to people

  • professional

    uninjured

    a person has no bodily injury

    not when not for property, reputation, or ecosystems

  • literary

    unscathed

    survival through a serious threat is emphasized

    not when may overdramatize a minor incident

Said against

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  • harmed
  • injured
  • damaged

It naturally appears in

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  • escape unharmed

    The nesting birds escaped unharmed when volunteers moved the net.

  • safe and unharmed

    Every resident was found safe and unharmed before midnight.

  • remain unharmed

    The sealed seedlings remained unharmed during the cold journey.

Where this comes from

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