"innocuous" meaning in English

See innocuous in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ɪˈnɒkjuəs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ɪˈnɑkjuəs/ [US] Audio: en-us-innocuous.ogg Forms: more innocuous [comparative], most innocuous [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin innocuus (“harmless”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*neḱ-}}, {{bor|en|la|innocuus||harmless}} Latin innocuus (“harmless”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} innocuous (comparative more innocuous, superlative most innocuous)
  1. Harmless; producing no ill effect. Synonyms: innoxious, nonpoisonous, nontoxic, undamaging, unharmful, harmless Translations (harmless — see also harmless): məsum (Azerbaijani), безвреден (bezvreden) (Bulgarian), innocu (Catalan), 無害的 (Chinese Mandarin), 无害的 (wúhài de) (Chinese Mandarin), harmløs (Danish), onschadelijk (Dutch), onschuldig (Dutch), óskaðiligur (Faroese), meinaleysur (Faroese), harmiton (Finnish), vaaraton (Finnish), viaton (Finnish), inoffensif (French), harmlos (German), αβλαβής (avlavís) (Greek), לא מזיק (l'mzik) (Hebrew), ártalmatlan (Hungarian), innocuo (Italian), 無害な (mugai na) (Japanese), 無毒な (mudoku na) (Japanese), залалсыз (zalalsyz) (Kazakh), зарарсыз (zararsyz) (Kazakh), зиянсыз (ziänsyz) (Kazakh), қиянатсыз (qiänatsyz) (Kazakh), harmløs (Norwegian Bokmål), ضررسز (zararsız) (Ottoman Turkish), زیانسز (ziyansız) (Ottoman Turkish), بیضرر (bi-zarar) (Persian), niegroźny (Polish), bezpieczny (Polish), inócuo [masculine] (Portuguese), inofensiv (Romanian), nevătămător (Romanian), безвре́дный (bezvrédnyj) (Russian), безоби́дный (bezobídnyj) (Russian), inocuo (Spanish), innocuo (Spanish), ofarlig (Swedish), oskadlig (Swedish), oskyldig (Swedish), zararsız (Turkish), нешкідли́вий (neškidlývyj) (Ukrainian)
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  2. Inoffensive; unprovocative; unexceptionable. Synonyms: uncontroversial Translations (inoffensive — see also inoffensive): безобиден (bezobiden) (Bulgarian), 無傷大雅的 (Chinese Mandarin), 无伤大雅的 (wúshāngdàyǎ de) (Chinese Mandarin), onschuldig (Dutch), onschadelijk (Dutch), braaf (Dutch), harmiton (Finnish), viaton (Finnish), inoffensif [masculine] (French), unverfänglich (German), konform (German), gewöhnlich (German), αβλαβής (avlavís) (Greek), ártalmatlan (Hungarian), innocuo (Italian), 無難な (bunan na) (Japanese), 当たり障りのない (atarisawari no nai) (Japanese), inofensivo (Spanish), inocente (Spanish), необра́зливий (neobrázlyvyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-innocuous-en-adj-2WkyNTEQ Disambiguation of 'inoffensive — see also inoffensive': 36 64
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Derived forms: innocuity, innocuously, innocuousness Related terms: innocent
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          "word": "无伤大雅的"
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          "word": "braaf"
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          "word": "viaton"
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          "code": "de",
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          "word": "unverfänglich"
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          "word": "konform"
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          "word": "gewöhnlich"
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          "_dis1": "36 64",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
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          "word": "αβλαβής"
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        {
          "_dis1": "36 64",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
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          "word": "ártalmatlan"
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          "_dis1": "36 64",
          "code": "ja",
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          "word": "無難な"
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          "code": "ja",
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          "roman": "atarisawari no nai",
          "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
          "word": "当たり障りのない"
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          "_dis1": "36 64",
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          "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
          "word": "inocente"
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          "_dis1": "36 64",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "neobrázlyvyj",
          "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
          "word": "необра́зливий"
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          "word": "nocuous"
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          "word": "noxious"
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          "text": "With its green cupola or tapering spire, / Which sunset touches with innocuous fire, / The little church appears, to sanctify / The precincts duly where men live and die— [...]",
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          "ref": "1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 9, in A Footnote to History:",
          "text": "The shells fell for the most part innocuous; an eyewitness saw children at play beside the flaming houses; not a soul was injured.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1911, Bram Stoker, “Mesmer’s Chest”, in The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider and Son, […], →OCLC, page 110:",
          "text": "Other things, too, there were, not less deadly though seemingly innocuous—dried fungi, the touch of which was death and whose poison was carried on in the air; also traps intended for birds, beast, fishes, reptiles, and insects; machines which could produce pain of any kind and degree, and the only mercy of which was the power of producing speedy death.",
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          "ref": "1997, David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The effects of any one instance of TV absorbing and pablumizing cultural tokens seems innocuous enough.",
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          "ref": "2011 September 2, “Wales 2 — 1 Montenegro”, in BBC Sport:",
          "text": "As the half closed [Gareth] Bale and [Joe] Ledley both went close with good efforts, but [Craig] Bellamy picked up a yellow card for an innocuous challenge that also rules the new Liverpool man out of the trip to Wembley.",
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          "word": "nonpoisonous"
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          "word": "nontoxic"
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          "word": "unharmful"
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          "ref": "1910, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 29, in The Intrusion of Jimmy:",
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      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "məsum"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bezvreden",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "безвреден"
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      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "innocu"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "無害的"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wúhài de",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "无害的"
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      "code": "da",
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      "word": "onschadelijk"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "onschuldig"
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      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "óskaðiligur"
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      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "meinaleysur"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "harmiton"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "vaaraton"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "viaton"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "inoffensif"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "harmlos"
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "αβλαβής"
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    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "l'mzik",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "לא מזיק"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "ártalmatlan"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "innocuo"
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    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mugai na",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "無害な"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "mudoku na",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "無毒な"
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    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "zalalsyz",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "залалсыз"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "zararsyz",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "зарарсыз"
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    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "ziänsyz",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "зиянсыз"
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    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "qiänatsyz",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "қиянатсыз"
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "harmløs"
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    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "zararsız",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "ضررسز"
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    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "ziyansız",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "زیانسز"
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    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "bi-zarar",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "بیضرر"
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    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "niegroźny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "bezpieczny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "inócuo"
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "inofensiv"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "nevătămător"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bezvrédnyj",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "безвре́дный"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bezobídnyj",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "безоби́дный"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "inocuo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "innocuo"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "ofarlig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "oskadlig"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "oskyldig"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "zararsız"
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    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "neškidlývyj",
      "sense": "harmless — see also harmless",
      "word": "нешкідли́вий"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bezobiden",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "безобиден"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "無傷大雅的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wúshāngdàyǎ de",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "无伤大雅的"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "onschuldig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "onschadelijk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "braaf"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "harmiton"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "viaton"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "inoffensif"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "unverfänglich"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "konform"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "gewöhnlich"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "avlavís",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "αβλαβής"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "ártalmatlan"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "innocuo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "bunan na",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "無難な"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "atarisawari no nai",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "当たり障りのない"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "inofensivo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "inocente"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "neobrázlyvyj",
      "sense": "inoffensive — see also inoffensive",
      "word": "необра́зливий"
    }
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.