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adjectivenot harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy. not likely to irritate or offend; inoffensive; an innocuous remark. not interesting, stimulating, or significant; pallid; insipid: an innocuous novel. Origin of innocuousFrom the Latin word innocuus, dating back to 1590–1600. See in-3, nocuous OTHER WORDS FROM innocuousin·noc·u·ous·ly, adverbin·noc·u·ous·ness, in·no·cu·i·ty [in-uh-kyoo-i-tee], /ˌɪn əˈkyu ɪ ti/, nounun·in·noc·u·ous, adjectiveun·in·noc·u·ous·ly, adverb un·in·noc·u·ous·ness, noun Words nearby innocuousInnocent VIII, Innocent X, Innocent XI, Innocent XII, Innocent XIII, innocuous, innominate, innominate artery, innominate bone, innominate cartilage, innominate vein Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for innocuousThe contrarians of the world went full Oliver Stone on the innocuous tune, branding it “problematic” and “anti-feminist.” ‘All About That Bass’ Singer Meghan Trainor On Haters and Her Polarizing (and Unlikely) No. 1 Hit|Marlow Stern|October 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST One faction contends violent games invite real-world brutality, and the other faction defends violent games as innocuous. Playing Violent Video Games Makes You a Better Person, Study Says|Kevin Zawacki|July 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST It feels like an innocuous moment, it should be an innocuous moment, but such moments are like serrated precipices. Why 7 Times 8 Tripped Up the UK Chancellor|Tim Teeman|July 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST On May 24, 2012, Senator Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, gave an innocuous interview to a visiting journalist from Turkey. The Hedonistic, Possibly Holocaust-Denying Sect That’s Hoodwinking Republican Congressmen|Jay Michaelson|April 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
More than one used the term “innocuous” to describe the laws. How Anti-Gay Will Mississippi’s ‘New’ Religious Freedom Bill Be?|Jay Michaelson|March 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST No public account was taken of the innocuous aims, so to speak, taken by justice, in order to hit her victim. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844|Various This law, in the words of a distinguished Statesman, was then allowed to relapse "into innocuous desuetude." Shadow and Light|Mifflin Wistar Gibbs I must not only seem normal and at ease, I actually must be so and harbor only friendly, innocuous thoughts toward The Brain. The Brain|Alexander Blade Whatever my intentions were, I have been innocuous, for you have dogged my strides and counteracted my influence. Fantastic Fables|Ambrose Bierce When on the march, the army ants are as innocuous at two inches as at two miles. Edge of the Jungle|William Beebe
British Dictionary definitions for innocuous
adjectivehaving little or no adverse or harmful effect; harmless Derived forms of innocuousinnocuously, adverbinnocuousness or innocuity (ˌɪnəˈkjuːɪtɪ), nounWord Origin for innocuousC16: from Latin innocuus harmless, from in- 1 + nocēre to harm Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to innocuousbland, banal, inoffensive, insipid, painless, flat, innocent, jejune, kind, safe, weak, unobjectionable, innoxious, sapless, unoffending Medical definitions for innocuous
adj.Having no adverse effect; harmless. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |