Difference between Innocent and Harmless

What is the difference between Innocent and Harmless?

Innocent as an adjective is pure; free from sin and immorality. while Harmless as an adjective is incapable of causing harm or danger

Innocent

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Those who are innocent; young children.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Pure; free from sin and immorality. Clean, untainted. Bearing no responsibility for a crime. Naive; artless. Harmless.

Example sentence: You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

Harmless

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: incapable of causing harm or dangernot intended to harm; inoffensivesafe

Example sentence: Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

We hope you now know whether to use Innocent or Harmless in your sentence.

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