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harmless

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈhɑːmləs/
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/ˈhɑːmləs/ · /ˈhɑɹmləs/

Definition of harmless

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Incapable of causing harm or danger; safe.
    “Near-synonyms: benign, innocuous, innocent, undamaging, nonthreatening, unthreatening”
    “This snake looks nearly the same as its poisonous cousin but is harmless.”
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adj

  1. Incapable of causing harm or danger; safe.
    “Near-synonyms: benign, innocuous, innocent, undamaging, nonthreatening, unthreatening”
    “This snake looks nearly the same as its poisonous cousin but is harmless.”
  2. Not intended to harm; inoffensive.
    “His humor can be annoying but is harmless.”
    “The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?”
  3. (obsolete)Unharmed.

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Etymology

From Middle English harmles, from Old English *hearmlēas, from Proto-Germanic *harmalausaz (“without harm; harmless”), equivalent to harm + -less. Cognate with German harmlos (“harmless”), Danish harmløs (“harlmess”), Swedish harmlös (“harmless”).

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