harmless

[Harm·less]

Things that can't hurt you are harmless. It might be hard for you to believe her when your sister tells you that her enormous pet snake is completely harmless.

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Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.

Adjective S.
not threatening to life or health; not malignant; "a benign tumor is usually harmless"

Adjective
not causing or capable of causing harm; "harmless bacteria"; "rendered the bomb harmless"

Adjective
not injurious to physical or mental health

Adjective S.
unlikely to harm or disturb anyone; "harmless old man"

Adjective S.
not producing any toxic effects

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a.
Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.

a.
Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive.


Harmless

Harm"less , a. 1. Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless. 2. Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive. " The harmless deer." Drayton Syn. -- Innocent; innoxious; innocuous; inoffensive; unoffending; unhurt; uninjured; unharmed. --Harm"less*ly, adv.- Harm"less*ness, n.

Harmonic, Harmonical

Har*mon"ic , Har*mon"ic*al
, a. [L. harmonicus, Gr. ; cf. F. harmonique. See Harmony.] 1. Concordant; musical; consonant; as, harmonic sounds.
Harmonic twang! of leather, horn, and brass.
2. (Mus.) Relating to harmony, -- as melodic relates to melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body. 3. (Math.) Having relations or properties bearing some resemblance to those of musical consonances; -- said of certain numbers, ratios, proportions, points, lines. motions, and the like. Harmonic interval (Mus.), the distance between two notes of a chord, or two consonant notes. -- Harmonical mean (Arith. & Alg.), certain relations of numbers and quantities, which bear an analogy to musical consonances. -- Harmonic motion, the motion of the point A, of the foot of the perpendicular PA, when P moves uniformly in the circumference of a circle, and PA is drawn perpendicularly upon a fixed diameter of the circle. This is simple harmonic motion. The combinations, in any way, of two more simple harmonic motions, make other kinds of harmonic motion. The motion of the pendulum bob of a clock is approximately simple harmonic motion. -- Harmonic proportion. See under Proportion. -- Harmonic series ∨ progression. See under Progression. -- Spherical harmonic analysis, a mathematical method, sometimes referred to as that of Laplace's Coefficients, which has for its object the expression of an arbitrary, periodic function of two independent variables, in the proper form for a large class of physical problems, involving arbitrary data, over a spherical surface, and the deduction of solutions for every point of space. The functions employed in this method are called spherical harmonic functions. Thomson & Tait. -- Harmonic suture (Anat.), an articulation by simple apposition of comparatively smooth surfaces or edges, as between the two superior maxillary bones in man; -- called also harmonic, and harmony. -- Harmonic triad (Mus.), the chord of a note with its third and fifth; the common chord.

Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.

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Usage Examples

One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.

'Lucky' is for laughs, and there's really nothing funny that I'm doing on 'Dexter.' I think more than anything, both comment on the fact that anybody is capable of anything. Just because they are the shy guy in the corner doesn't mean that they are a harmless little bunny.

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

In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing.

Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

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