innocuous
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
innocuous
- Harmless; producing no ill effect.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, A Footnote to History, ch. 9:
- Inoffensive; unprovocative; not exceptional.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1893, Gilbert Parker, Mrs. Falchion, ch. 12:
- (harmless, without ill effect) innoxious, nonpoisonous, nontoxic, undamaging, unharmful, harmless
- (inoffensive) uncontroversial
- French: inoffensif
- German: harmlos
- Italian: innocuo
- Portuguese: inócuo
- Russian: безвре́дный
- Spanish: inocuo
- French: inoffensif
- German: unverfänglich, konform, gewöhnlich
- Italian: innocuo
- Spanish: inofensivo
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