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.

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   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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1. Klaus Gottlieb:

   One of them is an enzyme that splits the molecule in wheat that causes celiac disease, gluten, into smaller harmless products and another one promises to make the gut less leaky and thus prevent potentially toxic substances (from) reaching deeper layers where they may cause inflammation.

2. 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.

3. Kyle Thiem:

   These different types of wintry precipitation are very sensitive to small changes, a change of just a degree or two can mean the difference from relatively harmless rainfall to very impactful ice and snow accumulations.

4. Charles Dickens:

   I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

5. Jay Leno:

   At the time I did those jokes, I genuinely thought them to be harmless, i was making fun of our enemy North Korea, and like most jokes, there was a ring of truth to them.