unarmed

/ˌˈʌnˌˈɑrmd/

/ənˈɑmd/

When someone is unarmed, they don't have any weapons. Leave your slingshot at home if you want to be officially unarmed.

Sometimes the adjective unarmed has the sense of "helpless" or "defenseless," as when you hear about military troops attacking unarmed civilians. The word is constructed by adding the prefix un- ("not" ) to armed, which has meant "prepared for battle" since the 13th century, from its Latin root arma, "tools or implements of war."

Definitions of unarmed

1. adjective

   (used of persons or the military) not having or using arms
   “went alone and unarmed”

   “unarmed vehicles”

   synonyms:

   barehanded

   with bare hands

   clean

   not carrying concealed weapons

   defenceless, defenseless

   lacking weapons for self-defense

   weaponless

   without a weapon

   antonyms:

   armed

   (used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms

   equipped, weaponed

   carrying weapons

   light-armed

   armed with light equipment and weapons

   militarised, militarized

   issued military arms
2. adjective

   (used of plants or animals) lacking barbs or stings or thorns
   synonyms:

   spineless, thornless

   lacking thorns

   antonyms:

   armed

   (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns

   barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny

   having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

   bristlelike

   resembling a bristle

   brushlike

   resembling a brush

   thistlelike

   resembling a thistle

   clawed, taloned

   (of predatory animals) armed with claws or talons