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单词 innocuous
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innocuousadj.

/ɪˈnɒkjuːəs/
Etymology: < Latin innocuus ( < in- , in- prefix4 + nocuus (rare), < root of nocēre to hurt) + -ous suffix.
Not hurtful or injurious; harmless. In Zoology applied spec. to the non-venomous snakes (constituting the division Innocua).
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the world > action or operation > safety > [adjective] > safe or not dangerous > safe or harmless
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unbalefulOE
unscathefulc1175
unscathelya1400
unscathing1437
unnoyingc1440
unshendingc1450
unnoyous1483
harmless1533
unharmful1538
unhurtful1549
dintless1558
white1567
offenceless1581
inoffensive1598
unhurting1613
illaesive1628
innocuous1631
unmalignant1633
innoxious1638
inobnoxious1659
unvenomous1659
innocent1662
unafflictinga1711
unmolesting1767
fangless1790
unharming1796
woundless1796
uninjurious1809
uninjuring1820
unmischievous1821
scarless1823
boltless1832
inoffending1853
defanged1920
non-injury1926
anodyne1933
declawed1945
1631 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man (new ed.) iii. 171 The still houres of his innocuous life.
1638 A. Cowley Loves Riddle ii. sig. B6v To spend the rest of my..dayes in their innocuous sports.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 107 All these innocuous and harmlesse creatures.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. v. 20 But over Diomedes' left shoulder passed The point innocuous.
1844 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 2) I. Pref. p. xviii Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous.
1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 93 Spinach-juice furnishes an innocuous colouring-matter.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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