Innocuous

Adjective

 * 1) Harmless; producing no ill effect.
 * 2) * 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, A Footnote to History, ch. 9:
 * The shells fell for the most part innocuous; an eyewitness saw children at play beside the flaming houses; not a soul was injured.
 * 1) * 1910, Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm, ch. 11:
 * Other things, too, there were, not less deadly though seemingly innocuous—dried fungi, traps intended for birds, beasts, fishes, reptiles, and insects.
 * 1) Inoffensive; unprovocative; not exceptional.
 * 2) * 1893, Gilbert Parker, Mrs. Falchion, ch. 12:
 * Ruth Devlin announced that the song must wait, though it appeared to be innocuous and child-like in its sentiments.
 * 1) * 1910, P. G. Wodehouse, The Intrusion of Jimmy, ch. 28:
 * He sat down, and lighted a cigarette, casting about the while for an innocuous topic of conversation.

Synonyms

 * innoxious

Derived terms

 * innocuity
 * innocuously
 * innocuousness

Related terms

 * innocent

Adverbs for Innocuous
utterly; advantageously; valuably; unobjectionably; vacuously; inoffensively; negligibiy; presumably; probably; wholesomely; safely; undoubtedly; definitely

Thesaurus
benign, harmless, homely, humble, humble-looking, humble-visaged, humblest, inglorious, innocent, inoffensive, least, low, lowest, lowliest, lowly, mean, modest, nonmalignant, nonpoisonous, nontoxic, nonvirulent, plain, poor, sapless, simple, small, teachable, undamaging, undistinguished, unhurtful, unimportant, uninjurious, unobnoxious, unoffending, unpretentious

Translations

 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German:
 * Greek: αβλαβής
 * Hebrew: לא מזיק
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 無害な
 * Polish: bezpieczna
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: безвредный, безобидный
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ofarlig, oskadlig, oskyldig
 * Ukrainian: нешкідливий


 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:, ei
 * French:
 * Greek: αβλαβής
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 差し障りのない
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian: нешкідливий