harmless
Incapable of causing harm or danger; safe.
Adjective
- Incapable of causing harm or danger; safe.
- Near-synonyms: benign, innocuous, innocent, undamaging, nonthreatening, unthreatening
- This snake looks nearly the same as its poisonous cousin but is harmless.
Synonyms: unharmful nonharmful benign innocuous innocent undamaging nonthreatening unthreatening
Antonyms: harmful deleterious damaging threatening
- Not intended to harm; inoffensive.
- His humor can be annoying but is harmless.
- 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...
- Unharmed.
Synonyms: unscathed
Origin
From Middle English harmles, from Old English *hearmlēas, from Proto-Germanic *harmalausaz (“without harm; harmless”), equivalent to harm + -less. Cognate with German harmlos (“harmless”), Danish harmløs (“harlmess”), Swedish harmlös (“harmless”).