Antonyms for innocuous

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ih-nok-yoo-uh s

Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈnɒk yu əs

Definition of innocuous

Origin : 1590s, from Latin innocuus "harmless," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + nocuus "hurtful," from root of nocere "to injure, harm," from *nok-s-, suffixed form of PIE root *nek- "death" (see necro-). Related: Innocuously; innocuousness.

adj harmless

Example sentences :

Has the art censor decided that the photographs are innocuous, or that they are art?
Extract from : « Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 » by Various

To conclude our voyage, we have six or seven days of "innocuous desuetude."
Extract from : « Shadow and Light » by Mifflin Wistar Gibbs

When on the march, the army ants are as innocuous at two inches as at two miles.
Extract from : « Edge of the Jungle » by William Beebe

Tomfoolery, nonsense; trashy, mild, and innocuous literature.
Extract from : « The Slang Dictionary » by John Camden Hotten

That is as innocuous a statement as ever was penned of the objects of any organization.
Extract from : « The Great American Fraud » by Samuel Hopkins Adams

But she is believed to take up a position of innocuous desuetude, so to speak.
Extract from : « As the Crow Flies » by Walter Phelps Dodge

Emancipation, if it has not changed its character, has rendered it innocuous.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 427, May, 1851 » by Various

Some of these sharks are small, blunt-toothed, and innocuous.
Extract from : « A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2) » by David Starr Jordan

The excess is innocuous, owing to the limited solubility of lime.
Extract from : « Animal Proteins » by Hugh Garner Bennett

Where once stood the mortuary is now the innocuous Censor's office.
Extract from : « Eighteen Months in the War Zone » by Kate John Finzi

Synonyms for innocuous

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