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say it: uh-NAHRMD
unarmed is an adjective meaning "(used of persons or the military) not having or using arms". It is pronounced /əˈnɑɹmd/ — uh-NAHRMD. It carries 2 recorded senses.
(used of persons or the military) not having or using arms
“went alone and unarmed”
“unarmed peasants were shot down”
“unarmed vehicles”
military
(used of plants or animals) lacking barbs or stings or thorns
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for unarmed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.