harmlessly
8
2.3
- adverb
- /ˈhɑːrmləsli/
:
inocentemente
- Soran watches in horror as the probe crashes harmlessly into the distant jungle.
- fell harmlessly
- bounced harmlessly
- passed harmlessly
Examples
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The ship is completely bonded together... and the charge was dissipated harmlessly.
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Basically, all philosophizing began harmlessly as clever textual exegesis and interpretation.
Academic text (2007) -
At dinner, she started out harmlessly, "Do you get enough to eat at your school?"
Fiction book (2002) -
Alex leaps over it, and it passes harmlessly under her.
Fiction book (1993) -
The Big Boy Rocket spins to avoid the laser as it passes harmlessly by.
Fiction book (1999) -
The stone rattled harmlessly off the clapboards and fell at my feet.
Fiction book (1991) -
The missiles follow the heat of the flares, plummeting harmlessly to earth.
Fiction book (1997) -
Cohaagen looks at his pet goldfish swimming harmlessly in its bowl.
Fiction book (1990) -
Ifwe can deflect these comets enough, they will bounce harmlessly off our atmosphere and head on out into space.
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The ball fell harmlessly to the ground without causing any damage.
Synonyms
473
1.0
In a way that does not cause harm
28
2.6
In a way that shows no guilt or knowledge of something wrong
3
5.8
In a kind and gentle way that does no harm
1
5.5
In a harmless way that does not upset or hurt people
In a calm way that does not scare people
In a way that does not seem dangerous
In a way that does not upset or hurt people
Antonyms
How Harmful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Harmlessly breaks into harm ('injury' or 'hurt'), -less ('without'), and -ly (which turns a word into how something is done). So, to do something harmlessly is to do it 'without harm', in a way that does not cause hurt.