单词 | innocuous |
释义 | innocuousadj. Not hurtful or injurious; harmless. In Zoology applied spec. to the non-venomous snakes (constituting the division Innocua). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > [adjective] > safe or not dangerous > safe or harmless unshathyOE unbalefulOE unscathefulc1175 unscathelya1400 unscathing1437 unnoyingc1440 unshendingc1450 unnoyous1483 harmless1533 unharmful1538 unhurtful1549 dintless1558 white1567 offenceless1581 inoffensive1598 unhurting1613 illaesive1628 innocuous1631 unmalignant1633 innoxious1638 inobnoxious1659 unvenomous1659 innocent1662 unafflictinga1711 unmolesting1767 fangless1790 unharming1796 woundless1796 uninjurious1809 uninjuring1820 unmischievous1821 scarless1823 boltless1832 inoffending1853 defanged1920 non-injury1926 anodyne1933 declawed1945 1631 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man (new ed.) iii. 171 The still houres of his innocuous life. 1638 A. Cowley Loves Riddle ii. sig. B6v To spend the rest of my..dayes in their innocuous sports. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 107 All these innocuous and harmlesse creatures. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. v. 20 But over Diomedes' left shoulder passed The point innocuous. 1844 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 2) I. Pref. p. xviii Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous. 1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 93 Spinach-juice furnishes an innocuous colouring-matter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.1631 |
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