unthreatening

adjective

un·​threat·​en·​ing

ˌən-ˈthret-niŋ,

-ˈthre-tᵊn-iŋ 

: not presenting a threat : not threatening

… Mr. Yanobe's sculptures are friendly, unthreatening beings.

—Sarah Bayliss

unthreateningly adverb

Examples of unthreatening in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Bacon was manly in an unthreatening, apolitical way, embraced by role models as diverse as Ron Swanson and James Deen. —Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024

For the first four decades since its creation in 1972, the party was consistently dismissed as a marginal and anomalous phenomenon, unfortunate but unthreatening. —Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, Foreign Affairs, 18 Feb. 2016

The unthreatening, cuddly bears soon emerged as the choice to represent China on the world stage. —Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 July 2024

There was something very unthreatening, ironically, about this man. —Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1903, in the meaning defined above