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Harmless vs Uninjured - What's the difference?

harmless | uninjured | Synonyms |

As adjectives the difference between harmless and uninjured

is that harmless is incapable of causing harm or danger while uninjured is that did not suffer lesion.

As a noun uninjured is

one or many people or objects that have not suffered injury.

harmless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Incapable of causing harm or danger.
  • Not intended to harm; inoffensive.
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  • Safe.

    • Synonyms

    * benign * innocent * innocuous

    Antonyms

    * harmful

    Derived terms

    * harmlessly * harmlessness

    uninjured

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • One or many people or objects that have not suffered injury.
    • The driver was hurt and went to hospital whilst the uninjured passengers went home.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • That did not suffer lesion.
    • Of the three, two were hurt and went to hospital but the uninjured one made her way home .