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(hɑːʳmləs)
1. adjective
Something that is harmless does not have any bad effects, especially on people's health.
Industry has been working at developing harmless substitutes for these gases.
This experiment was harmless to the animals.
Synonyms: safe, benign, wholesome, innocuous More Synonyms of harmless
harmlessly adverb [ADVERB with verb]
Another missile exploded harmlessly outside the town.
2. adjective
If you describe someone or something as harmless, you mean that they are not important and therefore unlikely to annoy other peopleor cause trouble.
He seemed harmless enough.
I would not want to deny them a harmless pleasure.
Synonyms: inoffensive, innocent, innocuous, gentle More Synonyms of harmless
harmlessly adverb [ADVERB after verb]
It started harmlessly enough, with a statement from the Secretary of State for SocialSecurity.

harmless in British English

(ˈhɑːmlɪs)
adjective
1. 
not causing any physical or mental damage or injury
2. 
unlikely to annoy or worry people
a harmless sort of man
Derived forms
harmlessly (ˈharmlessly)
adverb
harmlessness (ˈharmlessness)
noun

harmless in American English

(ˈhɑrmlɪs)
adjective
1.  Rare
not harmed
2. 
causing or seeking to cause no harm; not harmful; inoffensive
Derived forms
harmlessly (ˈharmlessly)
adverb
harmlessness (ˈharmlessness)
noun

Examples of 'harmless' in a sentence
harmless

While most sightings are regarded as relatively harmless some have been far more sinister.
The Sun (2016)
It all sounds harmless enough.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Do not allow him to brush it off under the guise of a little harmless flirting.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The term sounds harmless enough but its origins are possibly not quite so innocent.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
But clearly faked anger about something relatively harmless is easier for an audience to laugh along to.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Urban exploration is a relatively harmless hobby.
The Sun (2012)
These fools think it is harmless fun.
The Sun (2008)
What seems like harmless flirty fun to you is filling her with anxiety.
The Sun (2013)
But they reckon without an apparently harmless little old lady coming between them and the loot.
The Sun (2008)
In the last year the credit controller has been quizzed twice by cops about his harmless hobby.
The Sun (2008)
It was a kick in the teeth for me but he insists it was harmless fun.
The Sun (2009)
The photos might seem like harmless fun but it shows how accepted that is.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The accident with the bike rider had been relatively harmless.
Vera Peiffer POSITIVELY FEARLESS: Breaking free of the fears that hold you back (2001)
It is just a bit of harmless fun.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Dry eyes can be caused by a number of relatively harmless things.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
These biographical insights are harmless enough.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Here, homeopathy ceases to be a harmless joke.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
This can be a harmless cyst or something more sinister - so it needs checking.
The Sun (2009)
In its milder forms, celebrity worship amounts to little more than harmless entertainment.
Paul Martin MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE (2005)
It may well turn out to be something harmless, like irritable bowel syndrome.
The Sun (2009)
He is a decent enough chap, if a little harmless.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
I am not one to object to any harmless pleasure.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Many of them would roll up on a Sunday to be told from the pulpit that their harmless pleasures would send them straight to hell.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)

In other languages
harmless

British English: harmless /ˈhɑːmlɪs/ ADJECTIVE
Something that is harmless does not have any bad effects.
This experiment is harmless to the animals.
  • American English: harmless
  • Arabic: غَيْرُ مُؤذِيّ
  • Brazilian Portuguese: inofensivo
  • Chinese: 无害的
  • Croatian: bezopasan
  • Czech: neškodný
  • Danish: harmløs
  • Dutch: onschadelijk
  • European Spanish: inofensivo
  • Finnish: harmiton
  • French: inoffensif
  • German: harmlos
  • Greek: ακίνδυνος
  • Italian: innocuo
  • Japanese: 無害な
  • Korean: 무해한
  • Norwegian: ufarlig
  • Polish: nieszkodliwy
  • European Portuguese: inofensivo
  • Romanian: inofensiv
  • Russian: безвредный
  • Latin American Spanish: inofensivo
  • Swedish: oförarglig
  • Thai: ไม่มีอันตราย
  • Turkish: zararsız
  • Ukrainian: безпечний
  • Vietnamese: vô hại

Chinese translation of 'harmless'

harmless

(ˈhɑːmlɪs)

adj

  1. (= safe) 无(無)害的 (wúhài de)
  2. (= inoffensive) [person, joke, pleasure, activity] 无(無)恶(惡)意的 (wú èyì de)
1 (adjective) 
Definition
safe to use, touch, or be near
working at developing harmless substitutes for these gases
Synonyms
safe
a clean, inexpensive and safe fuel
benign
It wasn't cancer, only a benign tumour.
wholesome
The food was filling and wholesome.
innocuous
not dangerous
nontoxic
innoxious
Opposites
dangerous
,
destructive
,
harmful
,
toxic
,
unsafe
,
unhealthy
,
unwholesome
2 (adjective) 
Definition
unlikely to annoy or worry people
He seemed harmless enough.
Synonyms
inoffensive
He's a mild, inoffensive man.
innocent
It was probably an innocent question, but he got very flustered.
innocuous
Both mushrooms look innocuous, but are in fact deadly.
gentle
tame
tame animals at a children's zoo or farm
unobjectionable

Additional synonyms

in the sense of benign
Definition
(of a tumour, etc.) able to be controlled
It wasn't cancer, only a benign tumour.
Synonyms
harmless,
innocent,
superficial,
innocuous,
curable,
inoffensive,
not dangerous,
remediable
in the sense of gentle
Synonyms
tame,
broken,
manageable,
placid,
docile,
tractable,
biddable
in the sense of innocent
Definition
harmless or innocuous
It was probably an innocent question, but he got very flustered.
Synonyms
harmless,
innocuous,
inoffensive,
well-meant,
unobjectionable,
unmalicious,
well-intentioned

Synonyms of 'harmless'

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