unarmed
adjUS /ˌʌnˈɑɹmd/
Etymology From un- + armed.
1
Defenceless and lacking weapons.
2
Lacking both weapons and protective armour.
3
Biology, Natural sciences Not having thorns, claws, or other dangerous appendages.
- An unarmed jellyfish would never capture prey.
4
Obsolete Unaided, as of the vision without a glass.
- […] in order to see such Objects as are very remote, purblind Persons must make Use of concave Glasses, whose Radii are equal to the Distances at which they see distinctly with their unarmed Eyes.1759, William Porterfield, A treatise on the eye, the manner and phaenomena of vision:
- Derived terms
- unarmedness
- Related terms
- armless