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Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.
Steven Johnson

Meaning of "innocuous" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INNOCUOUS

From Latin innocuus harmless, from in-1 + nocēre to harm.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INNOCUOUS

innocuous  [ɪˈnɒkjʊəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INNOCUOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Innocuous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INNOCUOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of innocuous in the English dictionary

The definition of innocuous in the dictionary is having little or no adverse or harmful effect; harmless.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INNOCUOUS


ambiguous
æmˈbɪɡjʊəs
arduous
ˈɑːdjʊəs
conspicuous
kənˈspɪkjʊəs
contiguous
kənˈtɪɡjʊəs
continuous
kənˈtɪnjʊəs
deciduous
dɪˈsɪdjʊəs
discontinuous
ˌdɪskənˈtɪnjʊəs
inconspicuous
ˌɪnkənˈspɪkjʊəs
nocuous
ˈnɒkjʊəs
perspicuous
pəˈspɪkjʊəs
promiscuous
prəˈmɪskjʊəs
sensuous
ˈsɛnsjʊəs
strenuous
ˈstrɛnjʊəs
sumptuous
ˈsʌmptjʊəs
tenuous
ˈtɛnjʊəs
transpicuous
trænˈspɪkjʊəs
tumultuous
tjuːˈmʌltjʊəs
unambiguous
ˌʌnæmˈbɪɡjʊəs
vacuous
ˈvækjʊəs
voluptuous
vəˈlʌptjʊəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INNOCUOUS

innocence
innocency
innocent
Innocent II
Innocent III
Innocent IV
innocently
innocuity
innocuously
innocuousness
innominable
innominate
innominate bone
innovate
innovation
innovational
innovationist
innovative
innovatively
innovativeness

WORDS THAT END LIKE INNOCUOUS

assiduous
congruous
contemptuous
discontiguous
disingenuous
exiguous
impetuous
incestuous
incongruous
infructuous
ingenuous
mellifluous
noncontiguous
presumptuous
sinuous
superfluous
tempestuous
tortuous
unctuous
virtuous

Synonyms and antonyms of innocuous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INNOCUOUS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «innocuous» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of innocuous

Translation of «innocuous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INNOCUOUS

Find out the translation of innocuous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of innocuous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «innocuous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无害的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inocuo
570 millions of speakers

English

innocuous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अहानिकर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حميدة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

безобидно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inócuo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নির্দোষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

inoffensif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak berbahaya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

harmlos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

害のない
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무독성의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Innocuous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không hại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தீங்கற்ற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निरूपद्रवी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zararsız
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

innocuo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieszkodliwy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

необразливо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

inofensiv
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αβλαβείς
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onskadelike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oskadligt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ufarlige
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of innocuous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INNOCUOUS»

The term «innocuous» is quite widely used and occupies the 51.635 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INNOCUOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «innocuous» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «innocuous» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about innocuous

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7 QUOTES WITH «INNOCUOUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word innocuous.
1
Eric Balfour
The amazing thing about technology is that people have power. We are seeing it all the time in that innocuous people you would never know are having their voices heard because of this ability and technology we have.
2
Grover Cleveland
After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
3
Peter Conrad
The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.
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Steven Johnson
Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.
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Anna Kendrick
I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocuous that I supposedly said on Twitter before I was even on Twitter. So then I had to get on Twitter to say: 'This is me. I'm on Twitter. If there's somebody else saying that they're me on Twitter, they're not.'
6
Jason Patric
I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.
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Ai Weiwei
China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INNOCUOUS»

Discover the use of innocuous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to innocuous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Word a Week
Though the black rat snake's sound is imitative of a rattler, it is actually innocuous , or harmless. Innocuous means harmless. Some people feel that wearing a green buzz cut is an innocuous way of saying, “I am different.” Other people do not ...
Ruth Foster, 1999
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Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection: 9th International ...
For example, classifying all samples iate from a host whose behavior fits some coarse heuristic (e.g., originating a threshold number of connections per unit time ) risks flagging innocuous 5 suspicious. A coarse heuristic that errs frequently in ...
Diego Zamboni, Christopher Kruegel, 2006
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Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and ...
The innocuous approach elicited conversation through a pleasantry, such as “ How are you?” The cute-flippant approach involves humor, sometimes of a sexual nature, such as “I'm easy, are you?” The investigators reported that direct and ...
Ke-wen Wang, CRSN Staff, 1997
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War Torn Environment: Interpreting The Legal Threshold
The danger is that states would draw up two lists of targets, regarding: a) Facilities containing dangerous substances; and b) Facilities judged to be innocuous, or the destruction of which would not generally threaten widespread, long-term and ...
Karen Hulme, 2004
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Changing Plains
I might have had one too many and misspoke a few words that were out of turn and really rather innocuous.” “Innocuous?” he exploded. “Innocuous? You would characterize what you repeated to a total stranger as innocuous? They weren't a  ...
K. C. Bell, 2006
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The Role of Innocuous Touch in Driving Inhibition in a ...
The dorsal horn of the spinal cord is the first relay area where incoming pain, temperature and touch sensory information is processed before being sent onward to higher brain areas.
Claire Daniele, 2011
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Issues in Neuroscience Research and Application: 2011 Edition
New investigation results, 'Spinal processing of noxious and innocuous cold information: differential modulation by the periaqueductal gray,' are detailed in a study published in The Journal of Neuroscience. “In addition to cold being an ...
‎2012
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Promoting and Producing Evil
We see that 'innocuous' is followed by a (probably unexpected) 'but' in many of the examples (e.g. 'imaging is an innocuous diagnosis test which is innocuous although there are absolute contraindications'). It also implies negative ...
Nancy Billias, 2010
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Inhibitory Synaptic Plasticity
Block of GABA and glycine inhibition in the spinal cord promotes the transmission of nociceptive information (hyperalgesia) and makes innocuous input painful ( allodynia), akin to what is observed in neuropathic and inflammatory pain (Yaksh  ...
Melanie A. Woodin, Arianna Maffei, 2010
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Committees, Agendas and Voting
setter makes an innocuous proposal), and F (x) = P(x0) f) F(x) otherwise (i.e., the setter makes a non—innocuous proposal). Let F * (x) designate the set of possible voting outcomes, given that the gatekeeper proposes x and the subsequent ...
N. Miller, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INNOCUOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term innocuous is used in the context of the following news items.
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Alarming photo sparks NYPD investigation, but cause likely innocuous
Alarming photo sparks NYPD investigation, but cause likely innocuous. A retired officer snapped this photo on Staten Island on July 17, 2015, ... «CBS News, Jul 15»
2
Instagram body-shames its users: “Curvy” photo tags are banned …
Now, Instagram has once again revealed its confusion over women being, well, women, by blocking the seemingly innocuous hashtag “curvy. «Salon, Jul 15»
3
Apple Watch is "underwhelming" say designers - Dezeen
I opted not to. The styling is too bland to my taste. It's just too round and innocuous to me, although I admire the straps' magnetic latching.". «Dezeen, Jul 15»
4
The Way Lawmakers Use to Get Around the Earmark Ban
While this might sound innocuous, the commemorative coin process has been twisted by Congress to get around restrictions on earmarks and ... «Daily Signal, Jul 15»
5
Another civil rights struggle in the Carolinas over voting - The …
So is dealing with modern impediments that fuse the toxic socioeconomic legacy of that oppression with seemingly innocuous practices, ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
6
'Paul Blart 2' is on Blu-ray, DVD | News OK
Kevin James — most famous for his long-running sitcom “The King of Queens” — stars in this innocuous sequel (who knew he had a franchise ... «NewsOK.com, Jul 15»
7
Measure Of Deception: California Initiative Would Gut Retirement …
While its language won't shock the public like some notorious headline-grabbing initiatives, it's exactly the innocuous front that makes the ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
8
It's Contagious: Rude Behavior Goes Viral in the Workplace
While rude behavior by employees may seem innocuous, it can be extremely damaging to a business, Foulk said. "Part of the problem is that ... «Business News Daily, Jul 15»
9
Calgary Should Butt-Out the Vaping Ban | Derek James From
Instead, the vapor they emit contains a small amount of nicotine and some innocuous ingredients that are electronically vaporized and inhaled. «Huffington Post Canada, Jul 15»
10
BBC Sport - Ashes 2015: Pitch selection plays into Australia's hands
... wisdom of England asking for this kind of pitch. I just don't see the point in preparing wickets that render your own bowlers largely innocuous. «BBC Sport, Jul 15»

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