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harmless
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The term harmless or harmlessness may be taken in several ways: Ahimsa The lack of harm A legal term occurring in the contract law concept of hold harmless (indemnity). See also waiver . Mostly Harmless The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Harmlessness ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES harmless fun (= not likely to upset or offend anyone ) ▪ The game’s designer says it’s all a bit of harmless fun, but many parents disagree. render sb/sth impossible/harmless/unconscious etc ▪ He was rendered almost ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 incapable of causing harm or danger. 2 Not intended to harm; inoffensive.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harmless \Harm"less\ (h[aum]rm"l[e^]s), a. Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless. Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive. `` The harmless deer.'' --Drayton Syn: Innocent; innoxious; innocuous; ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not causing or capable of causing harm; "harmless bacteria"; "rendered the bomb harmless" [ant: harmful ] not injurious to physical or mental health [syn: innocuous ] [ant: noxious ] not producing any toxic effects unlikely to harm or disturb anyone; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "uninjured," from harm (n.) + -less . Meaning "undamaged" is from late 14c. Related: Harmlessly ; harmlessness .
Usage examples of harmless.
It is calculated that ever grown lion in South Africa kills for food, every year, between 200 and 300 harmless animals, and each one of which is as much entitled as the lion to the happiness of existence.
Matt was tempted-after all, it was a harmless little scene-but the antilitter habits of his own world took over, and he carefully thought of it disappearing as if erased with an art gum.
Daniel of Kiev in himself is a very ordinary and rather mendacious traveller, a harmless, devout pilgrim, as careless in all matters of fact as Antonine the Martyr.
Most Aussie ones are pretty harmless, but unfortunately, not all of them are.
For the rest, we came through a cave where you kept a tame snake, an ugly-looking reptile but very harmless to those who know how to deal with snakes and are not afraid of them as poor Bena was.
Only in the bizarro world of Hollywood can such a harmless little chap as George exude massive sexual potency.
He had not yet forgiven her for the fact that she was so very good at seeming a sweet, harmless, and slightly eccentric lady of a certain age, most concerned with blackfly on roses and the current state of the village church restoration appeal.
The botulinus toxin oxidises after twelve hours exposure to the atmosphere and becomes harmless.
As they circled the dusty corral Sheriff Wigan related the sad tale of Bubblehead Burnside, a hitherto harmless village idiot gone wrong.
Tobias Tweeney starts crying again, and I feel very sorry for him indeed, because I can see he is a friendly, harmless little fellow, and by no means accustomed to being tossed around by a doll, and a guy who is not accustomed to being tossed around by a doll always finds it most painful the first time.
Professor identified it as a harmless coelurosaur, but you could have fooled me.
Compared to them, the egalitarian Godmech Cogs were a harmless sect, even if their belief in the mechanicity of One True God was aggressively asserted.
As his deportment was sober and honest, and his intentions harmless, he was always treated, by Constantia, with politeness, though his entrance always produced a momentary depression of her spirits.
Large cracks appeared hi the ice with a sound of thunder, but only tiny crumblings brought particles down upon them, harmless as yet.
Shortly after Jerkline Jo left the beauty parlor of Lucy Dalles, mischievously bent on giving Ragtown a harmless little shock, Al Drummond sidled up to the old prospector at the bar in the Palace Dance Hall.