harmless
adjectifcourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ˈhɑːmləs//
- États-Unis//ˈhɑɹmləs//
Incapable of causing harm or danger; safe.
adjectif
- 1
Incapable of causing harm or danger; safe.
Near-synonyms: benign, innocuous, innocent, undamaging, nonthreatening, unthreatening
This snake looks nearly the same as its poisonous cousin but is harmless.
- 2
Not intended to harm; inoffensive.
His humor can be annoying but is harmless.
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?
- 3
obsolèteUnharmed.
Étymologie
From Middle English harmles, from Old English *hearmlēas, from Proto-Germanic *harmalausaz (“without harm; harmless”), equivalent to harm + -less. Cognate with German harmlos (“harmless”), Danish harmløs (“harlmess”), Swedish harmlös (“harmless”).
Formes
- comparatif
- more harmless
- superlatif
- most harmless
harmless · Incapable of causing harm or danger; safe.
Harmon · A surname.harmonica · A musical wind instrument with a series of holes for the…harmony · Agreement or accord.