English Explanatory Dictionary

innocuous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Harmless; producing no ill effect.
  2. Inoffensive; unprovocative; unexceptionable.

Pronunciation

/ɪˈnɒkjuəs/ /ɪˈnɑkjuəs/ en-us-innocuous.ogg

Word forms

innocuous more innocuous most innocuous

Etymology

From Latin innocuus (“harmless”) (therefore, no gemination in + nocuous).

Synonyms

innoxious nonpoisonous nontoxic undamaging unharmful harmless uncontroversial anodyne

Antonyms

nocuous noxious harmful poisonous toxic damaging deleterious detrimental hurtful inimical injurious mischievous nocent noisome prejudicial scathand scathel sullen venom

Related words

innocent

Derived words

innocuity innocuously innocuousness uninnocuous
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