harmlos

Related words

• Harmlosigkeit

  Harmlessness refers to the state of causing no danger or harm.

• verharmlosen

  to downplay

• Verharmlosung

  Downplaying, trivialization

• Kabbelei

  Bickering refers to a light, playful quarrel or squabble, often without serious intent.

• Danaergeschenk

  A Pyrrhic gift is a gift that appears harmless or valuable but actually causes harm to the recipient.

• Mittelchen

  remedy, medicine, potion

• Bagatellisierung

  Trivialization

• Späßchen

  little joke, jest

• herunterspielen

  To downplay, to play down

• flunkern

  Fib

• schöntun

  to embellish, to sugarcoat

• ungefährlich

  Harmless

• Schabernack

  prank, mischief

• unverdächtig

  Unsuspicious

• Milchschlange

  Milk snake

• Erdnatter

  Smooth snake

• Tatsachenbeschöniger

  Euphemizer, minimizer

• Beschöniger

  A glossifier is a person who tends to downplay facts or present them in a better light to avoid or mitigate unpleasant truths.

• Viech

  critter

• Ulk

  Joke, prank

• Beschönigung

  euphemism

• Verniedlichung

  Diminution

• banalisieren

  To trivialize

• abtun

  To dismiss, to brush aside

• beschönigen

  to gloss over, to sugarcoat

• untertreiben

  To understate means to present something as less important, bad, or significant than it actually is.

• schönreden

  Sugarcoat

• deuteln

  Evasiveness

• bagatellisieren

  To downplay, to trivialize

• einer Fliege etwas zuleide tun

  Not to hurt a fly

• allergisch

  Allergic

• trojanisch

  Trojan

• ungiftig

  non-toxic

• unschädlich

  Harmless

• folgenlos

  Without consequences

• gutartig

  benign

• Streich

  Prank

• unverfänglich

  inoffensive, harmless

• Sportlerherz

  Athlete's heart

• neutralisieren

  To neutralize means to make something ineffective or harmless, for example, an acid by adding a base.

• überspielen

  To gloss over, to downplay

• schönfärben

  To represent something as better than it really is; to gloss over.

• kleinreden

  to downplay, to belittle

• abarten

  To degenerate

• trivialisieren

  To trivialize

• verniedlichen

  To downplay means to represent something as smaller, less significant, or less harmful than it actually is.

• unbedenklich

  Harmless

• beschönigend

  Euphemistic None

• unanstößig

  inoffensive

Example sentences with “harmlos”

1. Die Spinne ist völlig harmlos. (The spider is completely harmless.)

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