Synonyms for harmless
ˈhɑrm lɪsharm·less

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1. harmlessadjective

   Antonyms:
   harmful

2. harmlessadjective

   Antonyms:
   harmful

3. harmlessadjective

   Antonyms:
   harmful

4. harmlessadjective

   Antonyms:
   harmful

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1. harmless

   Innocent, in the full sense, signifies not tainted with sin; not having done wrong or violated legal or moral precept or duty; as, an innocent babe. Innocent is a negative word, expressing less than righteous, upright, or virtuous, which imply knowledge of good and evil, with free choice of the good. A little child or a lamb is innocent; a tried and faithful man is righteous, upright, virtuous. Immaculate, pure, and sinless may be used either of one who has never known the possibility of evil or of one who has perfectly and triumphantly resisted it. Innocent is used of inanimate substances in the sense of harmless; as, an innocent remedy, that is, one not dangerous, even if not helpful. Innocent, in a specific case, signifies free from the guilt of a particular act, even tho the total character may be very evil; as, the thief was found to be innocent of the murder. See CANDID; PURE.

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   Synonyms:
   blameless, clean, clear, faultless, guileless, guiltless, immaculate, innocent, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, pure, right, righteous, sinless, spotless, stainless, upright, virtuous

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1. harmless

   Synonyms:
   innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, innocent, gentle

   Antonyms:
   nocuous, noxious, hurtful, savage, cruel, deadly, violent, mischievous, destructive, pernicious

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1. harmlessadjective

   not causing or capable of causing harm

   "harmless bacteria"; "rendered the bomb harmless"

   Antonyms:
   wounding, mischievous, stabbing, damaging, prejudicial, counterproductive, calumniatory, pernicious, insidious, libelous, slanderous, detrimental, bruising, ruinous, deleterious, catastrophic, bad, ill, defamatory, prejudicious, libellous, denigrating, hurtful, subtle, injurious, denigratory, denigrative, calumnious, nocent, harmful, abusive

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1. harmlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   innoxious, innocuous, not hurtful

2. harmlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   inoffensive, unoffending

3. harmlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   uninjured, unhurt, unharmed

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1. harmlessadjective

   Synonyms:
   innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, peaceable, uninjured, unscathed

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1. List of paraphrases for "harmless":

   innocuous, inoffensive, non-hazardous, benign, safe, innocent, helpless, environmentally, non-dangerous

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1. Hope Jay:

   It was a harmless senior prank that all of us parents knew 100% what was going on, they had planned as a group, you know, 40 students, which is half the senior class… to fork the field, which is putting plastic forks in the dirt.

2. 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)

3. Buddhist:

   If you injure a harmless person, the evil will fall back upon you, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

4. Mary Pilon:

   Don't underestimate people by how they look, i have a grandmother in her late 80s - tiny, churchgoing, harmless - who is an absolute killer at the Monopoly table. She turns into somebody else.

5. Jacob George:

   It is crucial to emphasize that e-cigarettes are not safe, just less harmful than tobacco cigarettes when it comes to vascular health, they should not be seen as harmless devices for non-smokers or young people to try.