Synonyms for innocuous
ɪˈnɒk yu əsin·nocu·ous

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1. innocuousadjective

   Harmless; producing no ill effect.

   Synonyms:
   innoxious

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1. innocuous

   Innocent, in the full sense, signifies not tainted with sin; not having done wrong or violated legal or moral precept or duty; as, an innocent babe. Innocent is a negative word, expressing less than righteous, upright, or virtuous, which imply knowledge of good and evil, with free choice of the good. A little child or a lamb is innocent; a tried and faithful man is righteous, upright, virtuous. Immaculate, pure, and sinless may be used either of one who has never known the possibility of evil or of one who has perfectly and triumphantly resisted it. Innocent is used of inanimate substances in the sense of harmless; as, an innocent remedy, that is, one not dangerous, even if not helpful. Innocent, in a specific case, signifies free from the guilt of a particular act, even tho the total character may be very evil; as, the thief was found to be innocent of the murder. See CANDID; PURE.

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   Synonyms:
   blameless, clean, clear, faultless, guileless, guiltless, harmless, immaculate, innocent, innoxious, inoffensive, pure, right, righteous, sinless, spotless, stainless, upright, virtuous

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1. innocuous

   Synonyms:
   inoffensive, harmless, wholesome

   Antonyms:
   obnoxious, hurtful, deleterious, insidious

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1. innocuousadjective

   not injurious to physical or mental health

   Synonyms:
   innocent, unobjectionable

   Antonyms:
   vesicant, degrading, pernicious, baneful, vesicatory, noxious, harmful, deadly, corrupting, pestilent, offensive

2. innocuous, unobjectionableadjective

   not causing disapproval

   "it was an innocuous remark"; "confined himself to innocuous generalities"; "unobjectionable behavior"

   Synonyms:
   clean, innocent, unobjectionable

   Antonyms:
   pernicious, baneful, deadly, pestilent, vesicatory, offensive, vesicant, corrupting, noxious, harmful, degrading

3. innocent, innocuousadjective

   lacking intent or capacity to injure

   "an innocent prank"

   Synonyms:
   impeccant, innocent, barren, guiltless, devoid, innocent(p), unacquainted(p), clean-handed, ingenuous, free, sinless, unobjectionable, destitute

   Antonyms:
   deadly, pernicious, noxious, degrading, vesicant, pestilent, corrupting, offensive, vesicatory, harmful, baneful

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1. innocuousadjective

   Synonyms:
   harmless, inoffensive, innoxious, innocent

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1. List of paraphrases for "innocuous":

   harmless, inoffensive, benign, insipid

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1. Robin Dreeke:

   Where does this or that person hang out? Do they play golf, for example? Once they identify who exactly they need, what kind of access, they figure out that person's patterns of behavior … they would show up, like, on a tennis court if you are playing tennis. And they would strike a conversation with you and try to be your friend. And you have no idea that you've been targeted because it all looks so innocuous and accidental.

2. Robert Brown:

   This was a very innocuous situation that was escalated by the deputies, if those young men had not maintained their poise. Let's say they walked towards the officers to try to explain what had happened to them or if they reached for a cellphone to call their parents, they could have potentially been shot or seriously injured or killed.

3. James Baldwin:

   Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field.

4. Joe Maddon:

   I saw nothing. I looked up and he was limping to the third base bag, it was kind of innocuous and I had no idea why. It was hurting him pretty good.

5. Simon Mays:

   Being indoors away from sunshine was probably a key factor, infant care practices that were innocuous in a Mediterranean climate may have been enough to tip babies into vitamin D deficiency under cloudy northern skies.