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Definition: Innoxious |
InnoxiousAdjective1. Having no adverse effect. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "innoxious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Etymology: Innoxious \In*nox"ious\, adjective. [Latin expression innoxius. See In- not, and Noxious.]. (references) |
Synonym: InnoxiousSynonym: harmless. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Innocence | Harmless; inoffensive, innoxious, innocuous; dove-like, lamb-like; pure, harmless as doves; innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn; "more sinned against than sinning". |
Salubrity | Innoxious, innocuous, innocent; harmless, uninjurious, uninfectious. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Innoxious |
| English words defined with "innoxious": Innocent party. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "innoxious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i parrezikshëm (benign, benignant, harmless, innocuous, safe), i padëmshëm (harmless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, safe, scatheless), joarmiqësor (innocuous, inoffensive). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | безвреден (anodyne, harmless, innocent, innocuous, unoffending). (various references) | |
Czech | neškodný (harmless, innocuous, inoffensive, scathless). (various references) | |
German | unschädlich (harmless, innocuous, innoxiously, safe). (various references) | |
Greek | αβλαβήσ (harmless, hurtless, innocuous, inoffensive, inviolate, scatheless, scot free, undamaged, unharmed, unhurt, unimpaired, unoffending, unscathed). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ártalmatlan (harmless, innocuous, inoffensive). (various references) | |
Italian | innocuo (harmless). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | innoxiousay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inofensivo (canny, harmless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, pet, tame), inócuo, que não faz mal. (various references) | |
Romanian | inofensiv (harmless, innocuous, inoffensive, sackless, unobjectionable, unoffending). (various references) | |
Russian | незлокачественный (innocent, innocuous), безвредный (harmless, innocuous), безопасный (healthy, innocent, innocuous, no-risk, safe, secure). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neškodljiv (harmless, innocuous, inoffensive, scatheless), bezopasan (harmless). (various references) | |
Spanish | inofensivo (harmless, inoffensive), inocuo (innocuous). (various references) | |
Swedish | ofarlig (harmless, safe), harmlös (innocent, innocuous). (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งไม่มีอันตราย (innocuous). (various references) | |
Turkish | zararsız (harmless, innocuous, inoffensive, platonic, unoffending). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нешкідливий (harmless, innocuous, inoffensive, non-malignant, non-poisonous, white). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không hại, không độc (innocuous, non-toxic). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "innoxious" (pronounced 'In*nox"ious'): Anxious, Atrabilious, Bilious, Congenious, ingenious, Minious, Noxious, Obnoxious, Overanxious, Prolixious, Punctilious. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "i-i-n-n-o-o-s-u-x" | |
-2 letters: noxious. | |
-3 letters: inions, onions, unions, unison. | |
-4 letters: inion, noons, nouns, onion, union. | |
-5 letters: inns, ions, nisi, noon, noun, nous, nuns, onus, soon, sunn. | |
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