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harmless meaning

EN[ˈhɑɹmləs] [ˈhɑːmləs]
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WHarmless
  • The term harmless may be taken in several ways:
  • A legal term occurring in the contract law concept of hold harmless (indemnity). See also waiver.
  • An in-joke for HGTTG aficionados: see Mostly Harmless.

    Definition of harmless in English Dictionary

  • AdjectiveCOMmore harmlessSUPmost harmlessSUF-less
    1. Incapable of causing harm or danger.
      1. Not intended to harm; inoffensive.
        1. 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?
      2. Safe.
      3. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • If that wasn't bad enough for the harmless browser, there's that "reviewerese" to negotiate:
          • It seems harmless enough, and often is; but if experienced players are doing it, the potential is there for collusion. And collusion is more than angle-shooting -- it's outright cheating.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Adjectives
          • Morphemes
            • Suffixes
              • Words by suffix
                • Words suffixed with -less
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          1. en harmlessly
          2. en harmlessness
          3. en harmlessnesses
          Source: Wiktionary

          Meaning of harmless for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this word "harmless" is an adjective. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe.
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