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innocuous

adjective

Synonyms and 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

Synonyms of innocuous

anodyne, benign, harmless, hurtless, innocent, inoffensive, safe, white

Words Related to innocuous

healthful, healthy, salubrious, wholesome

sound, trustworthy

gentle, gracious, mild

nonthreatening, painless, unobjectionable

noncorrosive, nondestructive, nonfatal, noninfectious, nonlethal, nonpoisonous, nonpolluting, nontoxic, nonvenomous

Near Antonyms of innocuous

poisonous, venomous

menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening

hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound

nasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome

offensive, painful, scathing, wounding

deadly, fatal, lethal, ruinous

destructive, insidious, malignant, noxious, pestilent, polluted, tainted

Antonyms of innocuous

adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, wicked

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