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[ hahrm-lis ] / ˈhɑrm lɪs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR harmless ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivewithout the power or desire to do harm; innocuous: He looks mean but he's harmless; a harmless Halloween prank. without injury; unhurt; unharmed. Idioms for harmlesshold harmless, Law. to relieve from responsibility or liability for any damage or loss.Also save harmless.
Origin of harmless1250–1300; Middle English. See harm, -less SYNONYMS FOR harmless1 inoffensive, mild, innocent, unobjectionable, benign. SEE SYNONYMS FOR harmless ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM harmlessharm·less·ly, adverbharm·less·ness, nounWords nearby harmlessharlotry, Harlow, harm, harmattan, harmful, harmless, harmolodics, Harmonia, harmonic, harmonica, harmonic analysis Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for harmlessKnowing the fellow to be both poor and harmless, I quietly gave him one. A Million Ways to Die in Prison|Daniel Genis|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST Of the over 100 strains, the majority are harmless and a healthy immune system will fight it without a person ever realizing it. The Silent Shame of HPV|Emily Shire|August 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST A harmless woman is being harassed online by a nerdy subculture. Fanboys, White Knights, and the Hairball of Online Misogyny|Tauriq Moosa|August 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST Are you not defeating the cause by demonstrating violence in your response to a nonviolent, harmless kid? How Not to Reply to a Racist Tweet|Tauriq Moosa|August 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
How could you tell the real, dangerous zombies apart from the harmless fakers? The Case Against Cards Against Humanity: Is Max Temkin a Horrible Person? (Does It Matter?)|Arthur Chu|July 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST Everybody looked upon him as a harmless old man, a trifle eccentric, and a great walker. Spies of the Kaiser|William Le Queux But one enormous indirect benefit we will gain if we can make Germany a peaceful and harmless State. The German War|Arthur Conan Doyle “Just look into their mouths, and you will soon see that they are not so harmless as you suppose,” he answered. On the Banks of the Amazon|W.H.G. Kingston To prove that tobacco, rightly used, is harmless, is to prove that it does pay to smoke. Tobacco and Alcohol|John Fiske If they fall into the hands of children they are also harmless as far as starting a fire is concerned. Woodcraft|E. H. (Elmer Harry) Kreps
British Dictionary definitions for harmless
adjectivenot causing any physical or mental damage or injury unlikely to annoy or worry peoplea harmless sort of man Derived forms of harmlessharmlessly, adverbharmlessness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to harmlessinnocuous, simple, naive, powerless, gentle, innocent, inoffensive, painless, nontoxic, guiltless, inoperative, kind, manageable, reliable, safe, sanitary, soft, sound, sure, trustworthy |