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Webster 1913 Edition
Harmless
Harm′less
(härm′lĕs)
, Adj.
1.
Free from harm; unhurt;
as, to give bond to save another
. harmless
Webster 1828 Edition
Harmless
H`ARMLESS
,Adj.
1.
Unhurt; undamaged; uninjured; as, to give bond to save another harmless.2.
Innocent; not guilty. Who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners. Heb.7.
Definition 2025
harmless
harmless
English
Adjective
harmless (comparative more harmless, superlative most harmless)
- Incapable of causing harm or danger.
- Not intended to harm; inoffensive.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. […] Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
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- Safe.
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incapable of causing harm or danger
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