HARMLESS, HARMLESSNESS
ADJECTIVES
1000 ► BALELESS harmless, innocent → obs.
1200 ► UNBALEFUL harmless, gentle → obs.
1200 ► UNSKATHEFUL harmless → obs.
17C.. ► ADRIFT harmless → sl.
1627 ► ILLAESIVE harmless → obs.
1670 ► ILL-LESS having no evil designs; harmless, innocent → Sc.
1768 ► SAKELESS of persons, animals, or things: inoffensive, harmless, guileless → Sc.
1788 ► SACKLESS simple, inoffensive, harmless; trembling; bashful → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1905 ► PARTICULAR quiet, harmless → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1995 ► MEEK AS A MOUSE extremely gentle and harmless → US sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1225 ► UNLOTHNESS harmlessness, innocence → obs.
NOUNS, PERSON
1553 ► CALF a fool, a simpleton; an awkward or silly boy or man; a meek, harmless person → sl.
1904 ► PUSSY a weak, harmless male; a timid person → sl.
1913 ► GOODY an insipid, harmless person → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1913 ► GOODY-GOODY an insipid, harmless person → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1942 ► PUSS a weak, harmless male; a timid person → sl.
1955 ► PUSSYCAT a weak, harmless male; a timid person → sl.
1960 ► DORK a stupid or ridiculous person; a jerk, a nerd; a socially inept, unfashionable, harmless person → sl.
VERBS
2002 ► TAKE OUT to destroy, to eliminate, to render harmless → Aust. sl. (Bk.)