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Helpless vs Harmless - What's the difference?

helpless | harmless |

As adjectives the difference between helpless and harmless

is that helpless is unable to defend oneself or to act without help while harmless is incapable of causing harm or danger.

helpless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unable to defend oneself or to act without help.
  • * 1995 , (Bryan Adams),
    • Then when you find yourself lyin' helpless in her arms
    You know you really love a woman
  • Uncontrollable.

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    harmless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Incapable of causing harm or danger.
  • Not intended to harm; inoffensive.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.
  • Safe.

    • Synonyms

    * benign * innocent * innocuous

    Antonyms

    * harmful

    Derived terms

    * harmlessly * harmlessness