harmless

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɑːmləs/
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• General-American: /ˈhɑɹmləs/
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AA1 R M L AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

49 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Azerbaijani: zərərsiz — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Belarusian: няшко́дны (njaškódny) — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Belarusian: бясшко́дны (bjasškódny) — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Bulgarian: безвре́ден (bezvréden) — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Bulgarian: безоби́ден (bezobíden) — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Catalan: inofensiu — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Chinese Mandarin: 無害 /无害 (wúhài) — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Czech: neškodný — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Dutch: ongevaarlijk — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Dutch: onschadelijk — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Esperanto: sendanĝera — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Finnish: harmiton — incapable of causing harm or danger
• French: inoffensif — incapable of causing harm or danger
• German: harmlos — incapable of causing harm or danger
• German: unschädlich — incapable of causing harm or danger
• German: ungefährlich — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Ancient Greek: ἀβλαβής (ablabḗs) — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Hungarian: ártalmatlan — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Icelandic: meinlaus — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Irish: neamhdhíobhálach — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Irish: neamhurchóideach — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Japanese: 無害な (mugai na) — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Kazakh: зарарсыз (zararsyz) — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Korean: 무해의 (muhae'ui) — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Latin: innocuus — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Manx: oney — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Manx: meenieuagh — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Māori: māhaki — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Norman: innoffensif — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Norwegian Bokmål: harmløs — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Polish: nieszkodliwy — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Portuguese: inofensivo — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Romanian: nevătămător — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Romanian: inofensiv — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Russian: безвре́дный (bezvrédnyj) — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Russian: безоби́дный (bezobídnyj) — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Slovak: neškodný — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Spanish: inocuo — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Spanish: inofensivo — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Spanish: benigno — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Swedish: ofarlig — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Swedish: harmlös — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Turkish: zararsız — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Ottoman Turkish: ضررسز (zararsız) — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Ottoman Turkish: زیانسز (ziyansız) — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Turkmen: zyýansyz — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Ukrainian: нешкідли́вий (neškidlývyj) — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Vietnamese: vô hại — incapable of causing harm or danger
• Welsh: diniwed — incapable of causing harm or danger