innocuous
- not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy.
- not likely to irritate or offend; inoffensive; an innocuous remark.
- not interesting, stimulating, or significant; pallid; insipid: an innocuous novel.
Origin of innocuous
Related Words for innocuous
bland, banal, inoffensive, insipid, painless, flat, innocent, jejune, kind, safe, weak, unobjectionable, innoxious, saplessExamples from the Web for innocuous
Contemporary Examples of innocuous
The contrarians of the world went full Oliver Stone on the innocuous tune, branding it “problematic” and “anti-feminist.”
‘All About That Bass’ Singer Meghan Trainor On Haters and Her Polarizing (and Unlikely) No. 1 HitMarlow Stern
October 7, 2014
One faction contends violent games invite real-world brutality, and the other faction defends violent games as innocuous.
It feels like an innocuous moment, it should be an innocuous moment, but such moments are like serrated precipices.
On May 24, 2012, Senator Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican, gave an innocuous interview to a visiting journalist from Turkey.
The Hedonistic, Possibly Holocaust-Denying Sect That’s Hoodwinking Republican CongressmenJay Michaelson
April 19, 2014
More than one used the term “innocuous” to describe the laws.
Historical Examples of innocuous
Has the art censor decided that the photographs are innocuous, or that they are art?
To conclude our voyage, we have six or seven days of "innocuous desuetude."
Shadow and LightMifflin Wistar Gibbs
When on the march, the army ants are as innocuous at two inches as at two miles.
Edge of the JungleWilliam Beebe
Tomfoolery, nonsense; trashy, mild, and innocuous literature.
The Slang DictionaryJohn Camden Hotten
That is as innocuous a statement as ever was penned of the objects of any organization.
The Great American FraudSamuel Hopkins Adams
innocuous
- having little or no adverse or harmful effect; harmless
Word Origin for innocuous
Word Origin and History for innocuous
innocuous
(ĭ-nŏk′yōō-əs)- Having no adverse effect; harmless.