You may think your comment was innocuous, but I found it very offensive.
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Innocuous
//ɪˈnɒkjuəs//
Synonyms for "innocuous" (57 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (17)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (28)
Adjective(6 words)
nontoxicnonvirulentplainpoorsafesaplesssimplesmallteachableuncontroversialundamagingundistinguishedunhurtfulunimportantuninjuriousunmenacingunobjectionableunobnoxiousunoffendingunpretentious
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Adjective(1 words)
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Antonyms
6 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
4 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
5 entriesTranslations
62 translations across 28 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀβλαβής adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- məsum adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Bulgarian
2 entries- безвреден adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- безобиден adj (inoffensive — see also inoffensive)
Catalan
1 entries- innocu adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 無傷大雅的 /无伤大雅的 adj (inoffensive — see also inoffensive)
- 無害的 /无害的 adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Danish
1 entries- harmløs adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Dutch
4 entries- braaf adj (inoffensive — see also inoffensive)
- onschadelijk adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- onschadelijk adj (inoffensive — see also inoffensive)
- onschuldig adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Faroese
2 entries- meinaleysur adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- óskaðiligur adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Finnish
4 entries- harmiton adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- harmiton adj (inoffensive — see also inoffensive)
- vaaraton adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- viaton adj (harmless — see also harmless)
French
2 entries- inoffensif adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- inoffensif adj (inoffensive — see also inoffensive)
German
4 entries- gewöhnlich adj (inoffensive — see also inoffensive)
- harmlos adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- konform adj (inoffensive — see also inoffensive)
- unverfänglich adj (inoffensive — see also inoffensive)
Greek
2 entries- αβλαβής adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- αβλαβής adj (inoffensive — see also inoffensive)
Hebrew
1 entries- לא מזיק adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Hungarian
2 entries- ártalmatlan adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- ártalmatlan adj (inoffensive — see also inoffensive)
Italian
2 entries- innocuo adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- innocuo adj (inoffensive — see also inoffensive)
Japanese
4 entries- 当たり障りのない adj (inoffensive — see also inoffensive)
- 無害な adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- 無毒な adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- 無難な adj (inoffensive — see also inoffensive)
Kazakh
4 entries- залалсыз adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- зарарсыз adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- зиянсыз adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- қиянатсыз adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- harmløs adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- زیانسز adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- ضررسز adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Persian
1 entries- بیضرر adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Polish
2 entries- bezpieczny adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- niegroźny adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Portuguese
1 entries- inócuo adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Romanian
2 entries- inofensiv adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- nevătămător adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Russian
2 entries- безвре́дный adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- безоби́дный adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Spanish
4 entries- innocuo adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- inocente adj (inoffensive — see also inoffensive)
- inocuo adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- inofensivo adj (inoffensive — see also inoffensive)
Swedish
3 entries- ofarlig adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- oskadlig adj (harmless — see also harmless)
- oskyldig adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Turkish
1 entries- zararsız adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Ukrainian
2 entries- необра́зливий adj (inoffensive — see also inoffensive)
- нешкідли́вий adj (harmless — see also harmless)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Sweatshop labor, rainforest destruction, global warming, displacement of indigenous communities, air and water pollution, eradication of wildlife on farmland as “pests”, the violent overthrow of popularly elected governments to maintain puppet dictators compliant to big business interests, open-pit strip mining, oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, union busting, child slavery, and payoffs to repressive regimes are just some of the many impacts of the seemingly innocuous consumer products we consume every day.
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Her innocuous statement was actually a veiled insult.
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Their wording was innocuous, but not entirely innocent.
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