harmless

[US]/ˈhɑːmləs/
[UK]/ˈhɑːrmləs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. without the capacity to cause harm; not causing injury.

Example Sentences

the substance is harmless if taken in small amounts.

the venom of most spiders is harmless to humans.

a game of cards is a pretty harmless occupation.

They killed the harmless old man in cold blood.

The trouble was sparked off by an apparently harmless phrase.

he discharged his resentment in the harmless form of memoirs.

porn, in his view, is far from being harmless smut.

a harmless, honest, guileless creature;

Under the agreement, I would be held harmless if the other parties defaulted.

He certainly seems harmless enough, but is he a wolf in sheep’s clothing?

This method was at low cost, harmless and suitable for extracting,separating and preparing mesaconitine,aconitine and hypaconitine.

The business scope of the Company is production and sales of compost, organic compound fertilizer, building block, color pavior brick, regenerated plastics and harmless vegetables.

The purple pigment which is asbtracted from the Althaea roseal is a harmless natural dystuff.This article introduces the research of the purple pigmenting from the althaea roseal and its stability.

a lizard of the genus Amphisbaena; harmless wormlike limbless lizard of warm or tropical regions having concealed eyes and ears and a short blunt tail.

It had all seemed like a nice piece of harmless fun to them: leaving a jokey message on an actor's answerphone about the alleged sexual exploits of his 23-year-old granddaughter.

"These are New Guinea's half-inch-long (1.3 centimeter long) antlered flies—harmless relatives of the Mediterranean fruit fly and other fruit pests.

Real-world Examples

How can you call something like this harmless?

Source: Desperate Housewives Season 1

I have never seen anything more harmless.

Source: Thirty-nine Steps (Difficulty Level 4)

Those five variants were not rare at all and in fact completely harmless.

Source: Newsweek

The adjective innocuous means completely harmless.

Source: 6 Minute English

Pretty harmless, perhaps; but also pretty disquieting.

Source: Brave New World

So many things, quite harmless, that one must not do for the same reason.

Source: Gone with the Wind

Now, most of these point mutations are harmless.

Source: TED 2019 Annual Conference (Bilingual)

Froopyland creatures were designed to be harmless.

Source: Rick and Morty Season 3 (Bilingual)

Now normally these minerals are perfectly harmless.

Source: Jurassic Fight Club

Most of the time e coli is harmless.

Source: CNN 10 Student English April 2019 Collection

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