Synonyms for inoffensive
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Innocuous — harmless
innocuous, harmless, unobjectionable, anodyne, benign, innocent, unoffending, innoxious dated
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Definitions
- adj. 1
harmless
Related words
- Word family
- inoffensively inoffensiveness
Example sentences
- harmless I'm sorry. It was only meant as a harmless prank.
- innocuous Her innocuous statement was actually a veiled insult.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| inoffensive | steady | |
| harmless | steady | |
| innocuous | steady | |
| anodyne | rising | |
| unobjectionable | falling | |
| peaceable | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- benign2
- 7 letters
- anodyne
- 8 letters
- innocent3, harmless2
- 9 letters
- innocuous4, peaceable3, innoxious
- 11 letters
- unoffending
- 15 letters
- unobjectionable
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (benign2 = 2 syllables).