What does Harmless mean?

Definitions for Harmless
ˈhɑrm lɪsharm·less

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Harmless.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. harmlessadjective

    not causing or capable of causing harm

    "harmless bacteria"; "rendered the bomb harmless"

Wiktionary

  1. harmlessadjective

    incapable of causing harm or danger

  2. harmlessadjective

    not intended to harm; inoffensive

  3. harmlessadjective

    safe

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Harmlessadjective

    Etymology: from harm.

    Touching ceremonies harmless in themselves, and hurtful only in respect of number, was it amiss to decree that those things that were least needful, and newliest come, should be the first that were taken away? Richard Hooker, b. iv. s. 14.

    She, like harmless lightning, throws her eye
    On him, her brothers, me, her master; hitting
    Each object with a joy. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

    The shipwright will be careful to gain by his labour, or at least to save himself harmless, and therefore suit his work slightly, according to a slight price. Walter Raleigh, Essays.

ChatGPT

  1. harmless

    Harmless refers to someone or something that is incapable of causing damage, injury, pain or any form of harm. It means not threatening, safe or benign.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Harmlessadjective

    free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless

  2. Harmlessadjective

    free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Harmless in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Harmless in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Harmless in a Sentence

  1. Elvira Swartch Lorenzo:

    It doesn’t matter what you think you’re trying to represent. It doesn’t matter that you think that’s how you make children happy. It doesn’t matter if it’s a tradition. If you paint yourself a color that is not yours, it is racist, the parade helps to normalize slavery as something harmless and inconsequential in the collective imagination, which is completely untrue.

  2. Jessica Palmore:

    I know they are harmless, but they make me super itchy seeing them.

  3. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown:

    The penalties in the federal system need to be much more conveyed to people to discourage this idea that this is a harmless, mostly clerical administrative violation of the federal system, it is blood money. You are getting the guns... to someone that will harm someone.

  4. Douglas Noel Adams:

    A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless)

  5. Marije Jongsma:

    The results show that after the use of oral antimicrobials, a shift occurs in the composition of the oral biofilm in a more healthy direction. Several species that can cause caries such as S. Mutans and Lactobacillus, decrease in prevalence, whereas the more harmless species increase in prevalence.

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