英和和英

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhɑːmləs/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈhɑɹmləs/

形容詞

harmless (comparative more harmless, superlative most harmless)

1. Incapable of causing harm or danger; safe.

   Synonyms: unharmful, nonharmful

   Antonyms: harmful, deleterious, damaging, threatening

   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.

   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     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. (obsolete) Unharmed.

   Synonym: unscathed

派生語