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harmless
[ hahrm-lis ]
adjective
- without the power or desire to do harm; innocuous:
He looks mean but he's harmless; a harmless Halloween prank.
Synonyms: unobjectionable, benign, innocent, mild, inoffensive
- without injury; unhurt; unharmed.
harmless
/ ˈhɑːmlɪs /
adjective
- not causing any physical or mental damage or injury
- unlikely to annoy or worry people
a harmless sort of man
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Derived Forms
- ˈharmlessness, noun
- ˈharmlessly, adverb
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Other Words From
- harm·less·ly adverb
- harm·less·ness noun
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Idioms and Phrases
- hold harmless, Law. to relieve from responsibility or liability for any damage or loss. Also save harmless.
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Example Sentences
The motives were most always harmless, and only sometimes ethically questionable.
Knowing the fellow to be both poor and harmless, I quietly gave him one.
Of the over 100 strains, the majority are harmless and a healthy immune system will fight it without a person ever realizing it.
A harmless woman is being harassed online by a nerdy subculture.
Are you not defeating the cause by demonstrating violence in your response to a nonviolent, harmless kid?
Y was a Youth, that did not love school; Z was a Zany, a poor harmless fool.
This harmless image of a fierce beast Yung Pak would pull about the floor with a string by the hour.
In some animals they are apparently harmless; in others they are an important cause of disease.
The motive of this harmless ruse was to bolster up Spanish prestige and thereby avoid bloodshed.
She tolerated, indeed she sometimes even smiled at the gallant captain's pleasantries, when they were of a harmless sort.
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