harmless
AdjectiveUS[hahrm-luhs]/ˈhɑrmləs/2 syllables
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Translations
Adjective incapable of causing harm or danger
- Spanish
- inocuo
- French
- inoffensif
- German
- harmlos
- Italian
- innocuo
- Portuguese
- inofensivo
- Turkish
- zararsız
- Russian
- безоби́дный bezobídnyj
- Chinese
- 无害 wúhài
- Dutch
- onschadelijk
- Polish
- nieszkodliwy
15 more languages
- Swedish
- harmlös
- Greek
- άκακος ákakos
- Indonesian
- aman
- Vietnamese
- vô hại
- Hungarian
- ártalmatlan
- Portuguese (PT)
- inofensivo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 無害 wúhài
- Catalan
- inofensiu
- Czech
- neškodný
- Esperanto
- sendanĝera
- Finnish
- harmiton
- Norwegian
- harmløs
- Romanian
- nevătămător
- Serbo-Croatian
- bezopasan
- Welsh
- diniwed
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Harm′less (härm′lĕs), adjective
1. Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.
2. Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive. “ The harmless deer.” Michael Drayton
Synonyms: Innocent; innoxious; innocuous; inoffensive; unoffending; unhurt; uninjured; unharmed.
—Harm′wb-a1′>′less·ly, adverb- Harm′wb-a1′>′less·ness, noun
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54