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.

   Compare synonyms for CRIMINAL.

   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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How to use harmless in a sentence?

1. Deborah Hasin:

   Counteracting the perceptions that( marijuana) is harmless with a balanced message about the potential harms is important, for researchers, I think it’s important to find what characteristics put people at risk.

2. Thomas Sternberg:

   I am worried these supposedly harmless instruments will pave the way to' selection mentality,'.

3. Aleister Crowley:

   If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

4. John Clements:

   If prescribed by an eye care professional and used as directed, most of these lenses are relatively harmless, the most devastating damage occurs when someone gets these lenses over-the-counter for cosmetic use and abuses the lens. This behavior can lead to severe eye infections that may cause blindness.

5. Letitia James:

   Juul lit a nationwide public health crisis by putting addictive products in the hands of minors and convincing them that it’s harmless. Today they are paying the price for the harm they caused.