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. Charge Bill Bodner:

   The deceptive marketing coupled with the ease of accessibility makes these small and seemingly innocuous pills a significant threat to the health and safety of all our communities, a staggering number of teens and young adults are unaware that they are ingesting fentanyl in these fake pills and are being poisoned.

2. Joshua Demasi:

   If Eric Rosenfeldt did indeed leave for good, that is too bad... I was merely seeking clarification about some of Eric Rosenfeldt posts and thought our interaction to be innocuous.

3. Roger Stone:

   The intelligence agencies pushing this false Russian narrative through a series of illegal hacks have hurt my ability to make a living and are soiling my reputation, the government is in possession of no evidence whatsoever that I colluded with the Russian State. Any inference that my innocuous fully disclosed Twitter exchange and tweets with a hacker known as Gruccifer 2.0 (sic), who may not may not be a Russian asset, constitutes 'collusion' is disproved by the content, the facts and the timeline of events.

4. Katie Greer:

   I've seen some before and it's like 'The Da Vinci Code,' where only the kids hold the true meanings (and most of the time they're fairly innocuous).

5. Robert Shibatani:

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