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. Stella Lee:

   The inside of the nose is lined by a multitude of cilia( which look like a shag carpet under the microscope) that are constantly providing clearance of mucus, pathogens and inhaled particulates to the back of the nose by beating in a rhythmic motion, it is amazing that our noses can differentiate between potentially harmful pathogens and innocuous agents.

2. Robert Shibatani:

   To a large extent, this seemingly innocuous little fish controls much of what we can or cannot do in the delta.

3. 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.

4. Barbara Ehrenreich:

   There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment -- anywhere.

5. Daniel Roth:

   The composition of the SCSRT (Iran’s Supreme Council for Science, Research and Technology)– which includes the President of Iran as well as several Government Ministers – shows how central both the SCSRT and UNIDO are to the regime’s scientific and technological policies, we know that Iran is prepared to exploit any avenue to advance its nuclear program. Even the most seemingly innocuous routes like academic exchange with European universities are targets.