Innocuous

Word INNOCUOUS
Character 9
Hyphenation in noc u ous
Pronunciations /ɪˈnɒkjuəs/

Definitions and meanings of "Innocuous"

What do we mean by innocuous?

Having no adverse effect; harmless. adjective

Not likely to offend or provoke to strong emotion; insipid. adjective

Harmless; producing no ill effect; incapable of harm or mischief.

Specifically In herpetology, not venomous.

Harmless; producing no ill effect. adjective

Harmless; producing no ill effect. adjective

Inoffensive; unprovocative; not exceptional. adjective

Not causing disapproval adjective

Not injurious to physical or mental health adjective

Lacking intent or capacity to injure adjective

Harmless; producing no ill effect.

Inoffensive; unprovocative; not exceptional.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Innocuous

The word "innocuous" in example sentences

He noted what he called an innocuous collection of photos of junior boxing groups. ❋ A. D. Scott (2010)

Explaining your challenge to something fairly innocuous is a courteous, adult thing to do. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A speech by the president should be in innocuous exercise in civics and public discourse. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And the writers are usually pretty darned clever about having something innocuous from the early part of the episode prove crucial at the end, like Carter’s sister’s music. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This is part of the Alaska program known as the innocuous sounding Permanent Fund Dividend and is the main reason why the oil companies know that Alaska residents will consistently favor oil company policies. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Media vigilance arising from constant gate keeping has for sometime now remained futile in what media kith and kin in the learned world described as innocuous statement. ❋ Unknown (2007)

While many are described as innocuous, several hundred pictures, 200 to 300 by one estimate document prisoner abuse, although sources say there are multiple images of the same event. ❋ Unknown (2004)

B. STANTON: B.t one of the things when Christina and I talked, we said, well, let's meet at a place that is, you know, innocuous, that is, you know, it's a place that's -- either of us could leave if we decided we didn't like the person, or we couldn't trust them or that kind of thing. ❋ Unknown (2002)

There was a supply of innocuous story-books for the perusal of Mrs. Marston's pupils on Saturday half-holidays, innocuous, that is to say, but for the fact that they gave a completely erroneous view of life, and from them Henrietta discovered that heroines after the sixteenth birthday are likely to be pestered with adorers. ❋ Unknown (1902)

But the young women soon heard that their shafts passed over Kirsteen's head and fell innocuous, which is the most safe and speedy extinguisher of malice. ❋ Margaret (1891)

Okay I liked him on the subway, and hanging in the bus shelter, and that kind of innocuous “pranking”. ❋ Unknown (2009)

First up was their take on Obama's "innocuous" use of NASA for diplomatic relations with the Muslim world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'd been doing what long-married people know how to do so well; snipe at their spouses with "innocuous" remarks -- "The market lost another five and a half percent yesterday," I'd muttered, "I wonder if Jay was really the best financial adviser we could have found?" ❋ Unknown (2008)

"I thought it was kind of innocuous," he said, adding: "You can take it either way -- those that are most diligent and encumbered by a huge workload may need all that coffee." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Karl has raised a number of valid observations, particularly with regard to the relative threats posed by items formerly regarded as 'innocuous' that are either significantly larger in scale ("trash bags"), more mobile (cars and trucks, for example), or both. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He calls your question "innocuous" and yet the feeling is that he questions your motives. ❋ Christopher O'Brien (2006)

Western Standard publisher Ezra Levant, a former Reform and Canadian Alliance activist, calls the cartoons "innocuous" and accused Canada's "mainstream media," including The Globe and Mail, of failing to stand up for free speech for refusing to print the images. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So I think by things such as innocuous -- a key FOB, hair gel, other types of liquid, could be carried on. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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