Another word for harmless
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Adjective
Devoid of hurtful qualities
- Giving no offense; unobjectionable.
- Causing no harm; harmless.
- Having no adverse effect; harmless.
- Not likely to offend or provoke to strong emotion; insipid.
- Uncorrupted by evil, malice, or wrongdoing; sinless:
- Not guilty of a specific crime or offense; legally blameless:
- Within, allowed by, or sanctioned by the law; lawful.
- Causing no hurt; harmless.
- Having no hurt; unhurt.
See also:Free from guilt or blame
- Free from dirt, stain, or impurities; unsoiled:
- Free from foreign matter or pollution; unadulterated:
- Not infected:
- Alternative spelling of unblameable.
- White as a lily.
- Beyond reproach; blameless:
- Consisting of white people only or excluding nonwhite people.
- Perfect or blameless in every respect; faultless:
- Uncorrupted by evil, malice, or wrongdoing; sinless:
- Not guilty of a specific crime or offense; legally blameless:
- Within, allowed by, or sanctioned by the law; lawful.
- Free of guilt; innocent.
- Being without fault.
- Free of blame or guilt; innocent.
Idioms:See also:
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Another word for harmless
Modifier
Usually said of persons
- Having few parts or features; not complicated or elaborate:
- Easy to understand, do, or carry out:
- Having or composed of only one thing, element, or part:
- Simple and guileless; artless:
- Unsuspecting or credulous:
- Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment:
- Giving no offense; unobjectionable.
- Causing no harm; harmless.
See also:Usually said of things
- simple past tense and past participle of disarm
- Not working or functioning.
- No longer in force; countermanded:
- Not producing or incapable of producing offspring.
- Not producing or incapable of producing seed, fruit, spores, or other reproductive structures. Used of plants or their parts.
- Producing little or no vegetation; unfruitful:
- Giving no offense; unobjectionable.
- Causing no harm; harmless.
- Vibrations transmitted through an elastic solid or a liquid or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing.
- Transmitted vibrations of any frequency.
- The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium.
- Resistant to germs.
- Of or relating to health or the protection of health.
- Free from elements, such as filth or pathogens, that endanger health; hygienic:
- Warranting trust; reliable.
- Capable of being relied on; dependable:
- Yielding the same or compatible results in different clinical experiments or statistical trials.
- Not irritating; not an irritant.
- Confident, as of something awaited or expected:
- Impossible to doubt or dispute; certain:
- Bound to come about or happen; inevitable:
- Having no adverse effect; harmless.
- Not likely to offend or provoke to strong emotion; insipid.
- Free from danger or injury; undamaged or unhurt:
- Not exposed to the threat of danger or harm:
- Usable in specified conditions without being damaged. Often used in combination:
- Capable of being managed or controlled:
- Able to be controlled; subject to regulation or command.
- Lacking strength or power; helpless and totally ineffectual.
- Lacking legal or other authority.
- Sufficiently deep or wide to provide passage for vessels:
- Capable of being steered. Used of boats, ships, or aircraft.
- not noxious; harmless; innocuous
- Free from complication or pain:
- Uncorrupted by evil, malice, or wrongdoing; sinless:
- Not guilty of a specific crime or offense; legally blameless:
- Within, allowed by, or sanctioned by the law; lawful.
- Lacking blemishes or faults:
- Perfectly clean:
- Free from flaw or imperfection; impeccable:
- Free from stain, blemish, evil or corruption; immaculate; uncorrupted.
- Having a homogeneous or uniform composition; not mixed:
- Free of dirt, pollutants, infectious agents, or other unwanted elements:
- Containing nothing inappropriate or extraneous:
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