1 ~ (to sb/sth) unable or unlikely to cause damage or harm:
The bacteria is harmless to humans.
2 unlikely to upset or offend anyone:
It's just a bit of harmless fun.
harmlessly adverb:
The missile fell harmlessly into the sea. * His interest in guns started harmlessly enough, but later it became an obsession.
harmlessness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for harmless is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is harmless a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, harmless is tagged as adjective.
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