innocuous
[adjective]
Synonyms: harmless, innocent, innoxious, inobnoxious, inoffensive, unoffending, unoffensive, insipid, banal, bland, driveling, flat, inane, jejune, milk-and-water, namby-pamby, sapless

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Antonyms: pernicious
Contrasted words: harmful, injurious, evil, troublesome

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

in‧noc‧u‧ous /ɪˈnɒkjuəs $ ɪˈnɑːk-/ adjective
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: innocuus, from nocere; ⇒ innocent¹]
not offensive, dangerous, or harmful Synonym : harmless:
an innocuous remark
He’s a perfectly innocuous young man.
—innocuously adverb

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

innocuous
adj.
VERBS appear, be, look, seem
ADV. perfectly, totally, wholly His comment seemed perfectly innocuous.
fairly, pretty, quite, relatively The liquid looked fairly innocuous.
enough The question appeared innocuous enough, but I still did not trust her.
apparently, seemingly

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