unscathed

not hurt, not damaged

TRANSLATION

unversehrt

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

"CNN is reporting Linux users UNSCATHED by the "ILoveYou" virus. It is interesting that none of the multiple e-mail accounts on my Linux IMAP-POP servers seems to have encountered the virus. The mail server that I use is Communigate Pro from Stalker Software."

(CmdrTaco - SlashDot - May 10th 2000)

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Interestingly, you cannot turn this word into its opposite by simply dropping the "un" - the word "scathed" does not exist in English.

Synonyms:
safe, sound, unharmed, unhurt, uninjured, unmarked, unscarred, unscratched, untouched, whole

Antonyms:
beat-up, bent, blemished, bobbled, buggered, busted, cooked, dinged, down, flawed, fouled up, glitched, gone, gummed up, had it, hurt, impaired, in smithereens, injured, kaput, loused up, marred, messed up, mucked up, no go, not working, on downtime, run down, screwed up, shot, snafued, spoiled, sunk, totaled, wracked up, afflicted, damaged, distressed, grieved, hurt, impaired, injured

It says something about human nature that we have many more words for negative, as opposed to positive words.

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