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Spell Bee Word: Harmless


What does harmless mean?

Word: Harmless

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Harmless means not able to hurt anyone or anything.

Synonyms: safe, gentle

Antonyms: dangerous

How do you spell harmless?

Syllables: harm - less

Tricky part: The ending is the whole word less, as in more or less, so it keeps a double s.

Watch out for: harmlass, harmlees

Memory tip: Less, as in more or less, sits at the end of harmless with both of its s's.

Harmless in a sentence

Example 1: The little house lizard is harmless.

Example 2: It was just a harmless joke.

Example 3: Ladybirds are harmless to people.

Fun Fact

Most kinds of snakes are harmless to people; only a few, such as cobras and rattlesnakes, are dangerous.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

harmless

a) kind
b) tiny
c) harmful
d) quiet

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c) harmful. Harmless means it cannot hurt you, and harmful means it can.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

lsrmeash

a) harmless
b) hramless
c) ahrmless
d) hamrless

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a) harmless. Once the first four letters are in order, the word less is left at the end.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

harmmless

a) s
b) l
c) h
d) m

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d) m. Harm has a single m.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) gentle
b) harmless
c) quiet
d) frendly

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d) frendly. Friendly is friend with ly added, so it keeps the i.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which thing is harmless for a little child to hold?

a) a sharp knife
b) a broken glass
c) a lit candle
d) a soft ball

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d) a soft ball

2. Which creature could sit on your hand without hurting you?

a) a wasp
b) a scorpion
c) a butterfly
d) a jellyfish

Show answer

c) a butterfly

Associated Words

Words that end in -less: toothless, restless, useless, priceless, hopeless, pointless

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: dangerous

More words from this list

pastry, scientist, streamer, wing, below, combine, exercise, halt

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