Word:
Innocuous
Status:
Adjective
Meaning:
Producing no injury, or unlikely to give offense or arouse strong strong feelings like hostility.
Sentences:
1) He told a few innocuous jokes.
2) An innocuous young man visited my home today.
Origin:
From Latin innocuous- in meaning 'not' while nocuous meaning 'injurious'.
First Use:
1598
Synonyms:
anodyne, benign, hurtless, innocent, harmless, safe, inoffensive, unobjectionable
Antonyms:
adverse, bad, noxious, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deletrious, detrimental, evil, harmful, ill, wicked
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