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harmlessly

/ˈhɑɹmɫəsɫi/ adv

In a harmless manner.

Word Origin Harmlessly is built from harm plus the Old English -leas 'lacking' — so harmless means 'free from harm.' Add -ly and you get the adverb. The -less suffix is incredibly productive: we have countless, fearless, endless, and many more, all conveying absence.

adv In a harmless manner.

The puppy played harmlessly with the children in the yard.

(副词) 无害地；无伤地；安全地

小狗在院子里无害地和孩子们玩耍。

(adverbio) De manera inofensiva.

El cachorro jugó inofensivamente con los niños en el jardín.

(adverbe) innocemment; inoffensivement; sans danger; anodinement [De manière inoffensive, sans causer de dommage.]

Le chiot jouait innocemment avec les enfants dans le jardin.

(Adverb) harmlos; unschädlich [**harmlos** *Adv.* – ohne Schaden oder Gefahr zu verursachen; ungefährlich.]

Der Welpe spielte **harmlessly** mit den Kindern im Garten.

(副詞) 無害な方法で、害のない様子で

子犬は庭で子供たちと無害に遊んでした。

(advérbio) inofensivamente; sem causar dano [De maneira inofensiva; sem causar dano.]

O filhote brincava inofensivamente com as crianças no quintal.

Synonyms: innocuously safely benignly inoffensively unobjectionably innocently nonthreateningly nonviolently Antonyms: harmfully dangerously destructively perniciously
Word parts: harm + less + ly

Common collocations

to prep in prep of prep be verb

Related words

harmful harmfully harmlessness lessen

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