| 单词 | harmless |
| 释义 | harmless (once / 471 pages) adj Things that can't hurt you are harmless. It might be hard for you to believe her when your sister tells you that her enormous pet snake is completely harmless. If your friend is scared of dogs, you can reassure her by saying, "Sure, he's 150 pounds and has a loud bark, but Fido is harmless!" Things that are safe or benign don't cause harm, and are therefore harmless, like your dad's harmless teasing or a compostable paper plate that's harmless to the environment. The word harmless originally meant "uninjured," or "not harmed," and came to mean "undamaged" by the end of the 1300s. WORD FAMILYharmless: harmlesser, harmlessly+/harm: harmed, harmful, harming, harmless, harms/harmed: unharmed/harmful: harmfully, harmfulness USAGE EXAMPLESThe scientists tested slime molds' ability to habituate by challenging them with quinine and caffeine — chemicals that are bitter-tasting but otherwise harmless. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Raschke says the Dortmund hospital typically treats two to four such injuries each year, and the picture was “one of the more harmless ones.” Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) Police later said the unattended bag was harmless. Seattle Times(Dec 28, 2016) adj not causing or capable of causing harm harmless bacteria rendered the bomb harmless Syn|Ant benign, benignant pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence innocent, innocuouslacking intent or capacity to injure innocuousnot injurious to physical or mental health painlessnot causing physical or psychological pain safefree from danger or the risk of harm atoxic, nontoxicnot producing or resulting from poison harmful causing or capable of causing harm disadvantageousconstituting a disadvantage malignevil or harmful in nature or influence destructivecausing destruction or much damage abusivecharacterized by physical or psychological maltreatment badcapable of harming bruisingcausing mental or emotional injury deleterious, hurtful, injuriousharmful to living things calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrating, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous(used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign catastrophic, ruinousextremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin counterproductivetending to hinder the achievement of a goal damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious(sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury illresulting in suffering or adversity insidious, pernicious, subtleworking or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way mischievousdeliberately causing harm or damage nocenthaving a tendency to cause harm stabbing, woundingcausing physical or especially psychological injury noxiousinjurious to physical or mental health offensivecausing anger or annoyance painfulcausing physical or psychological pain toxicof or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison unwholesomedetrimental to physical or moral well-being |
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