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

Trump is certain to get Miss Manners approval for saying the leader of North Korea has been respectful and unthreatening. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026

Türkiye, in Australia’s first match, had been sluggish and unthreatening. — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 1 July 2026

Lack of efforts to provide corrective knowledge about the unthreatening reality of TMI and the unique Soviet circumstances of the Chernobyl accident encouraged widespread belief that nuclear represented an essentialist threat to public safety. — Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 9 June 2026

The initial failure in Iraq was mitigated by a shift in strategy that ultimately left Iraq relatively stable and unthreatening to its neighbors and kept the United States dominant in the region. — Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 10 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1903, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for unthreatening

• nonthreatening
• threatening