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Synonyms & Antonyms of innocuous
not causing or being capable of causing injury or hurt
- those innocuous lies we must tell every day if society is to remain civil
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- hazardous,
- imperiling
- (or imperilling),
- jeopardizing,
- parlous,
- perilous,
- risky,
- unsafe,
- unsound
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The first known use of innocuous was in 1631
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