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Harmless

Definition: Harmless

Harmless

Adjective

1. Not causing or capable of causing harm; "harmless bacteria"; "rendered the bomb harmless".

2. Not injurious to physical or mental health.

3. Not producing any toxic effects.

4. Unlikely to harm or disturb anyone; "harmless old man".

5. (pathology) not threatening to life or health; not malignant; "a benign tumor is usually harmless".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "harmless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references)

 

Synonyms: Harmless

Synonyms: innocuous (adj), nonmalignant (adj). (additional references)
Antonyms: harmful (adj), noxious (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Harmless

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Defense

Verb: defend, forfend, fend; shield, screen, shroud; engarrison; fend round; (circumscribe); fence, entrench, intrench; guard; (keep safe); guard against; take care of; (vigilance); bear harmless; fend off, keep off, ward off, beat off, beat back; hinder.

Impotence

Harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu, unfortified, indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable.

Inexpedience

Adjective: harmless, hurtless; unobnoxious, innocuous, innocent, inoffensive.

Innocence

Harmless; inoffensive, innoxious, innocuous; dove-like, lamb-like; pure, harmless as doves; innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn; "more sinned against than sinning".

Perfection

Adjective: perfect, faultless; indefective, indeficient, indefectible; immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection; unblemished, uninjured; sound, sound as a roach; in perfect condition; scathless, intact, harmless; seaworthy; (safe); right as a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus; consummate; (complete); finished.

Safety

Unthreatening, harmless; friendly (cooperative).

Salubrity

Innoxious, innocuous, innocent; harmless, uninjurious, uninfectious.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Harmless

English words defined with "harmless": anguid lizard, Australian coral snakebasking shark, biodegradable pollution, black rat snake, blacksnake, bonnet shark, bonnethead, bull snake, bullsnakeCetorhinus maximus, colubrid, colubrid snake, Coral snake, corn snakeDarning needle, devilfish, Diamond snake, Dipsas, disarm, Dovisheagle ray, Elaphe guttata, Elaphe obsoletafamily Micrococcaceae, fish eagle, fish hawk, fructosuriagecko, good word, grass snakeharmlessly, hognose snake, Hognosesnake, hoop snake, Hornsnake, HurtlessIllesive, Innocent party, intestinal floraking snakeLeopard's banemanta, manta ray, Micrococcaceae, mountain blacksnakeNatrix maura, Natrix natrixospreyPandion haliaetus, pilot blacksnake, Pine snake, Prairie snake, Puff adderred rat snake, red-bellied snake, requiem shark, Rhynchoelaps australis, ring snake, ringed snakeSackless, sand snake, sand viper, sea eagle, shovelhead, Simple obligation, Sphyrna tiburo, Storeria occipitamaculataTarenteunarmviperine grass snake, Viperine snakeWater adder, water snake, Whale shark, worm lizard. (references)
Specialty definitions using "harmless": antibiotic resistance gene, antibiotic resistance marker gene, antibiotic resistant marker gene, antibiotic-resistance gene, ARM geneblack scorpion, Bond of Indemnity, Bonnetcatalytic oxidation, Cats, chemical water treatment, Coliform index, contamination controlDRY-HOUSE TENDEREnjoyed poor healthFLATHarmless as a Dove, harmless depth theory, hold harmless, hold harmless agreement, hold harmless clauseIndemnity Bond, INDIVIDUALITYKarnal buntmine dust, mottled silica brickred heart, renal cystsScarification, self-destruct system, standard of ventilationWHITE LIE. (references)

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Modern Usage: Harmless

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It's strange to me that something so harmless as a jacket could symbolize such a great lie. (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston)

No one plots like Gaston, takes cheap shots like Gaston, plans to persecute harmless crackpots like Gaston (Beauty and the Beast; writing credit: Roger Allers; Kelly Asbury)

Early seemed harmless. Primitive, but harmless (Kalifornia; writing credit: Tim Metcalfe. Starring Brad Pitt as Early Grayce, Juliette Lewis as Adele Corners, David Duchovny as Brian Kessler, and Michelle Forbes as Carrie Laughlin.)

We're perfectly harmless, unfortunately (Doctor Who; writing credit: Basil Caplan; Martin Defalco)

The harmless squirrel and the friendly rabbit (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis)

Lyrics

Long in the tooth but harmless as can be (It's A Great Day To Be Alive; performing artist: Travis Tritt)

Clever

What do Windows and a handgun have in common? Both are harmless while not loaded. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

The Harmless One (1913)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Harmless

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Harmless

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Plant pathologist Tim Widmer sprays a fungus isolated from yellow starthistle on a seedling of the same plant species. The fungus is harmless to humans. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Don't Bite Off More Than You Can Chew : Smokeless Doesn't Mean Harmless!. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Smokeless Isn't Harmless : If you dip or chew get the facts:. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Pot reefer spliff weed nickel joint roach dime bone bong hit hooch doobie grass gange shake smoke marijuana : no matter what you call it, don't call it harmless. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"On the morning of March 27, 1945 during Okinawa preparations four suicide planes attacked the light cruiser USS Biloxi. Three were shot down in flames but the fourth broke through the umbrella of ack-ack to smash itself against the cruiser's side. Later investigation revealed a 500-kilogram bomb which failed to explode. Rendered harmless, the bomb became the prized possession of the quarterdeck where it is shown being examined by Major Anthony V. Ragusin (right) of Biloxi, Miss., and Ensign Jack Fisher, USNR, of Natchitoches, La., both of whom are attached to the staff of the Commander in Chief Pacific Ocean Areas." (Quoted from the original caption released with this photograph on 7 September 1945.). Credit: NAVY.

A harmless pastime--. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Harmless
 

"Arachnaphobia" by Kris Kelley
Commentary: "A harmless garden spider on cement, black & white."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Harmless

AuthorQuotation

Charles Dickens

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overwhelming self-respect, relieve others of the duty of respecting them at all.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The fool and the wise man are equally harmless; it is the half-wise and the half-foolish who are most to be feared.

John Dryden

Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.

Milton Friedman

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer: A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Harmless

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

And if we shall not have corrected the transgression (or, in the event of our being out of the realm, if our justiciar shall not have corrected it) within forty days, reckoning from the time it has been intimated to us (or to our justiciar, if we should be out of the realm), the four barons aforesaid shall refer that matter to the rest of the five and twenty barons, and those five and twenty barons shall, together with the community of the whole realm, distrain and distress us in all possible ways, namely, by seizing our castles, lands, possessions, and in any other way they can, until redress has been obtained as they deem fit, saving harmless our own person, and the persons of our queen and children; and when redress has been obtained, they shall resume their old relations towards us. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Harmless

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

Were she a woman of fortune, I would leave every harmless absurdity to take its chance, I would not quarrel with you for any liberties of manner

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The talk of comrades does sometimes amount to these harmless tumults

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Harmless kinda fella

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Harmless

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Most types of E. coli are harmless, but some can cause disease. (references)

Most are harmless or even beneficial, but some can cause illness and death. (references)

Some are harmless and others cause disease, such as the common cold or measles. (references)

Business

CFCs are rendered harmless by combustion. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Harmless

"Harmless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.95% of the time. "Harmless" is used about 667 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)98.95%6609,933
Noun (proper)1.05%7133,076
                    Total100.00%667N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Harmless

Expressions using "harmless": hold harmless hold harmless agreement make harmless render harmless render smth. harmless. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "harmless": harmless-looking.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Harmless

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hold harmless agreement

95

agreement harmless hold release

4

hold harmless

46

agreement contractor harmless hold

4

harmless prank

17

bomb harmless

4

hold harmless clause

15

harmless hold indemnify

3

hold harmless form

13

mostly harmless

3

harmless

13

harmless practical joke

2

just a little harmless sex

8

contract harmless hold

2

harmless hold letter

7

error harmless rule

2

sample hold harmless agreement

7

harmless snake

2

estate form harmless hold real

6

game harmless

2

agreement form harmless hold

5

bomb harmless make

2

agreement estate harmless hold real

5

deadly harmless pet predators snake

2

harmless record

4

disclaimer harmless hold

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Harmless

Language Translations for "harmless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

veilig (safe, secure). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

i parrezikshëm (benign, benignant, innocuous, innoxious, safe), i pafajshëm (blameless, clear, guiltless, innocent, not implicated), i padëmshëm (innocent, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, safe, scatheless). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏غير مضر, ‏برئ (angelic, artless, blameless, clear, guileless, guiltless, honest, inculpable, ingenuous, innocent, naive, pure, simple, starry eyed, white). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

невредим (safe, safe and sound, scatheless, scot free, uncrippled, undamaged, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, uninjured, unscarred, unscathed, whole), безвреден (anodyne, innocent, innocuous, innoxious, unoffending), безобиден (ingenuous, unobjectionable, unoffending). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

無害 , 无害 (innocuous). (various references)

   

Czech

  

neškodný (innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, scathless). (various references)

   

Danish

  

uskadelige komponenter udenfor båndet (harmless out-of-band components), friholdelsesklausul (disclaimer, hold harmless), biologisk uskadelig (biologically harmless). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

veilig (safe, secure), onschadelýk, ongevaarlýk (safe), goedaardig (benign, good-hearted, kind, minor, of no account, safe, unimportant). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

harmiton, viaton (innocent), vaaraton (devoid of danger, not dangerous, safe). (various references)

   

French

  

inoffensif. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

feilich (safe, secure). (various references)

   

German

  

harmlos (easy, guileless, guiltless, harmlessly, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, mild, nonviscous, safe, slight, unoffending, unoffendingly, unsuspicious), gefahrlos (riskless, safe, safely). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

άκακοσ (innocent, inoffensive, unoffending), άκακος, ακίνδυνοσ (not dangerous, safe), αβλαβήσ (hurtless, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, inviolate, scatheless, scot free, undamaged, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, unoffending, unscathed). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לא מזיק (innocuous). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

ártatlan (artless, blameless, guileless, guiltless, innocent, sinless, to put on an innocent air, white, white-handed), ártalmatlan (innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, unhurting, unoffending, white). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tak berbahaya. (various references)

   

Italian

  

innocuo (innocuous, innoxious, unoffending). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

何でも無い (easy, trifling), 何でもない (easy, trifling). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

なんでもない (easy, trifling). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

무해한. (various references)

   

Malay

  

aman (safe, secure). (various references)

   

Manx

  

oney (artless, honest, innocent, innocuous, morally uncorrupted, simple, well-meant), neuskielleydagh (inoffensive), meenieunagh (not poisonous). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

harmløs (inoffensive), uskadelig. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

seif (safe). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

armlesshay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

so e salvo, que no faz mal (innocuous), inofensivo (canny, innocent, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, pet, tame), inocente (blameless, clear, guiltless, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, inoffensive, lamblike, shirt-sleeve, sinless, taintless, unoffending, unsophisticated). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

nevinovat (blameless, chaste, childlike, immaculate, innocent, not guilty, pure, sackless, silly, simple, white), inofensiv (innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, sackless, unobjectionable, unoffending), inocent (clean, guileless, guiltless, ingenuous, innocent, sackless, unoffending, virgin), blând (benign, bland, Clement, docile, dovelike, easy-tempered, fair, genial, gentle, gently, good hearted, good natured, lenient, meek, mild, mildly, Pacific, passive, peaceable, placable, silken, soft, steady, sweet, tame, tender, tractable), anodin. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

безвредный (innocent, innocuous, innoxious). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

sàbhailte (rescued, safe). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neškodljiv (innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, scatheless), bezopasan (innoxious), bezazlen (artless, childish, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, laudable, naďve, simplehearted, simple-hearted, unoffending, unsuspecting). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

Inofensivo (innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, safe). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ofarlig (innocuous, innoxious, safe), oskadlig (innocent, innocuous, inocuous), menlös (innocent, vapid). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zararsız (innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, platonic, unoffending), zararı dokunmayan, temiz kalpli (homespun, ingenuous, pure-minded, simple, simple minded, simple-hearted), suçsuz (blameless, clean-handed, guiltless, not guilty), saf (absolute, all, artless, candid, clean, clear, country bumpkin, credulous, deceivable, dewy-eyed, distilled, dupe, elemental, elementary, entire, facile, fine, genuine, greenhorn, gudgeon, guileless, gull, gullible, homespun, honest, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, juggins, mere, naïve, pigeon, pristine, pure, pure-minded, rank, raw, real, refined, simple, simple minded, simple simon, simple-hearted, sterling, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, uncontaminated, undiluted, unmixed, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, untutored, unworldly, witless), masum (blameless, clear, guiltless, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, lamblike, sinless, wide-eyed). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

неушкоджений (unhurt), нешкідливий (innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, non-malignant, non-poisonous, white), невинний (chaste, childlike, clean-handed, guiltless, innocent, pure, virginal, white). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vô tội; không làm hại ai, vô hại; không độc ngây thơ, không có hại (hurtless). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

diniwed (innocent). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Harmless

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

inermis, innocens, innocente, innocentem, innocenter, innocentes, innocenti, innocentia, innocentis, innocentium, innocentum, innocuum, innoxia, innoxias, innoxii, innoxio, innoxium, innoxius, insontem. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Harmless

LanguageDateSourceMatthew Chapter 10, Verse 16
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintIdou egw apostellw umaV wV probata en mesw lukwn ginesqe oun fronimoi wV oi ofeiV kai akeraioi wV ai peristerai
Latin405VulgateEcce ego mitto vos sicut oves in medio luporum estote ergo prudentes sicut serpentes et simplices sicut columbae
Old English990West SaxonNu ich eow sænde swa scep onmangwulfen. beoð eornestlicegleawe swa næddren. & bylehwitte swaculfren.
Middle English1395WyclifLo! Y sende you as scheep in the myddil of wolues; therfor be ye sliy as serpentis, and symple as dowues.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleBeholde I sende you forthe as shepe amoge wolves. Be ye therfore wyse as serpetes and innocent as doves.
Jacobean English1611King JamesBehold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Victorian English1833WebsterBehold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Basic English1964OgdenSee, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Be then as wise as snakes, and as gentle as doves.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Harmless

LanguageMatthew Chapter 10, Verse 16
Cebuano¶ "Tan-awa, paadtoon ko kamo nga daw mga karnero sa taliwala sa mga lobo; busa magmasinabuton kamo ingon sa mga bitin ug magmalumo kamo ingon sa mga salampati.
Croatian"Evo, ja vas šaljem kao ovce meðu vukove. Budite dakle mudri kao zmije, a bezazleni kao golubovi!
DanishSe, jeg sender eder som Får midt iblandt Ulve; vorder derfor snilde som Slanger og enfoldige som Duer!
DutchZiet, Ik zende u als schapen in het midden der wolven; zijt dan voorzichtig gelijk de slangen, en oprecht gelijk de duiven.
FinnishKatso, minä lähetän teidät niinkuin lampaat susien keskelle; olkaa siis älykkäät kuin käärmeet ja viattomat kuin kyyhkyset.
FrenchVoici, je vous envoie comme des brebis au milieu des loups. Soyez donc prudents comme les serpents, et simples comme les colombes.
GermanSiehe, ich sende euch wie Schafe mitten unter die Wölfe; darum seid klug wie die Schlangen und ohne Falsch wie die Tauben.
Haitian Creole¶ Gade, mesye! M'ap voye nou tankou mouton nan mitan chen mawon. Se sak fè, se pou nou sou prigad nou tankou pentad, se pou nou inonsan tankou pijon.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari"Perhatikan ini: Aku mengutus kalian seperti domba yang tidak berdaya ke tengah-tengah serigala ganas. Kalian harus waspada seperti ular dan tulus hati seperti burung merpati.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaIngatlah olehmu, Aku ini menyuruhkan kamu seperti domba di antara serigala. Sebab itu hendaklah kamu cerdik seperti ular, dan tulus hati seperti burung merpati.
ItalianEcco: io vi mando come pecore in mezzo ai lupi; siate dunque prudenti come i serpenti e semplici come le colombe.
LatvianLûk, es jûs sûtu kâ avis starp vilkiem. Tâpçc esiet gudri kâ èûskas un vienkârði kâ baloþi!
Manx GaelicCur-my-ner ta mish dy choyrt shiu magh myr kirree mastey moddee oaldey: Bee-jee er-y-fa shen tastagh myr ard-nieughyn, as oney myr calmaneyn.
Maori¶ Nana, ka tonoa nei koutou e ahau ano he hipi ki roto ki nga wuruhi: na, kia rite ki te nakahi te mahara, ki te kukupa hoki te mahaki.
NorwegianSe, jeg sender eder som får midt iblandt ulver; vær derfor kloke som slanger og enfoldige som duer!
PortugueseEis que vos envio como ovelhas ao meio de lobos; portanto, sede prudentes como as serpentes e simples como as pombas.   
RumanianIatq, Eu vq trimet ca pe niwte oi kn mijlocul lupilor. Fiyi dar knyelepyi ca werpii, wi fqrq rqutate ca porumbeii.
RussianчПФ, с РПУЩМБА ЧБУ, ЛБЛ ПЧЕГ УТЕДЙ ЧПМЛПЧ: ЙФБЛ ВХДШФЕ НХДТЩ, ЛБЛ ЪНЙЙ, Й РТПУФЩ, ЛБЛ ЗПМХВЙ.
Shuar¶ `Aneartarum. Wisha murik yawanum akupkatniua aintsanak akupeajrume. Tuma asamtai shiir nawamkartin áyatrum aneartarum.
Spanish"He aquí, yo os envío como a ovejas en medio de lobos. Sed, pues, astutos como serpientes y sencillos como palomas.
Swahili"Sasa, mimi nawatuma ninyi kama kondoo kati ya mbwa mwitu. Muwe na busara kama nyoka, na wapole kama njiwa.
SwedishSe, jag sänder eder åstad såsom får mitt in ibland ulvar. Varen fördenskull kloka såsom ormar och menlösa såsom duvor.
Uma¶ "Pelompehi, apa' kuhubui-koi hilou hi olo' tauna to dada'a. Koi' mpai' hewa bima hi olo' serigala. Kana mo'akala-koi hewa asi, aga mo'alusu' nono-ni hante uma ria patuju-ni to dada'a.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Harmless

Derivations

Words beginning with "harmless": harmlessly, harmlessness, harmlessnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "harmless": charmless. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Harmless" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Charmilles, Hartless. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Harmless"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "harmless" (pronounced hÄ"rmlus)
4-m l u saimless, blameless, bottomless, homeless, limbless, nameless, seamless, shameless, timeless, victimless.
3-l u saccomplice, acropolis, ageless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, balas, baseless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, callous, callus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, digitalis, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, Gallus, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, headless, heartless, helpless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, malice, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, palace, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, prothallus, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, selfless, senseless, sexless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Harmless

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-l-m-r-s-s"

-1 letter: armless, ashlers, lashers, marshes, mashers, shmears, slasher, smasher.

-2 letters: almehs, ashler, halers, harems, hassel, hassle, lasers, lasher, lashes, marses, masers, masher, mashes, rashes, rassle, realms, selahs, shales, shames, shares, sheals, shears, shmear, smears.

-3 letters: almeh, almes, arles, arses, ashes, earls, haems, haler, hales, halms, hames, harem, hares, harls, harms, heals, hears, helms, hemal.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-h-l-m-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: charmless.

 

+2 letters: hammerless, harmlessly.

 

+3 letters: blasphemers, harmfulness, marshalcies, thimerosals.

 

+4 letters: harmlessness, schoolmaster, smallholders.

 

+5 letters: accomplishers, blepharospasm, chromatolyses, elasmobranchs, harmfulnesses, hyperrealisms, imperishables, manslaughters, schoolmasters, sclerenchymas, sledgehammers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Historic
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Usage Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Bible Trace
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Bibliography


  

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