Word Study
unarmed
CIDE DICTIONARY
unarmed, a. [Pref. un- not + armed.].
- Not armed or armored; having no arms or weapons. [1913 Webster]
- Having no hard and sharp projections, as spines, prickles, spurs, claws, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Not in a state in which it may be detonated; unable to be detonated; -- used of nuclear and certain other explosive devices, which, as a safety precaution, are stored and transported in a state in which normal triggering mechanisms will not function to cause the device to detonate. The weapon must first be
armed by a separate action, and only subsequent to such arming will the weapon be able to detonate. [PJC]
THESAURUS
unarmed
bare-handed, defenseless, disqualified, guardless, helpless, ill-equipped, ill-fitted, ill-furnished, ill-provided, incapable, incompetent, unadapted, unarmored, unattended, uncovered, undefended, unequipped, unfit, unfitted, unfortified, ungarrisoned, unguarded, unprotected, unprovided, unqualified, unscreened, unsheltered, unshielded, unsuited, unsuspecting, unwarned, unwatched, weaponlessROGET THESAURUS
unarmed
Impotence
N impotence, inability, disability, disablement, impuissance, imbecility, incapacity, incapability, inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity, indocility, invalidity, disqualification, inefficiency, wastefulness, telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy, paper tiger, Quaker gun, inefficacy, failure, helplessness, prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration, deliquium, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition, emasculation, orchiotomy, orchotomy, cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle, eunuch, powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, ineffective, inept, unfit, unfitted, unqualified, disqualified, unendowed, inapt, unapt, crippled, disabled, armless, harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu, unfortified, indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable, paralytic, paralyzed, palsied, imbecile, nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless, emasculate, disjointed, out of joint, out of gear, unnerved, unhinged, water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless, laid on one's back, done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized, graveled, helpless, unfriended, fatherless, without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf, null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing, ineffectual, inadequate, inefficacious, der kranke Mann, desirous still but impotent to rise, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.For further exploring for "unarmed" in Webster Dictionary Online