Word Meanings - INNOCUOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Harmless; producing no ill effect; innocent. A patient, innocuous, innocent man. Burton. -- In*noc"u*ous*ly, adv. -- In*noc"u*ous*ness, n. Where the salt sea innocuously breaks. Wordsworth.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INNOCUOUS)
- Harmless
- Innocuous
- innoxious
- inoffensive
- innocent
- gentle
- Peaceable
- unwarlike
- quiet
- peaceful
- innocuous
- mild
- unquarrelsome
- serene
- placid
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INNOCUOUS)
Related words: (words related to INNOCUOUS)
- ROUSE
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. - HARMLESS
1. Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless. 2. Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive. " The harmless deer." Drayton Syn. -- Innocent; innoxious; innocuous; inoffensive; unoffending; unhurt; - AGITATE
1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly - PLACID
Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay. - INNOCENTLY
In an innocent manner. - INOFFENSIVE
1. Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance. 2. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. Dryden. 3. Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance. Milton. - EXCITEFUL
Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman. - PLACIDNESS
The quality or state of being placid. - QUIETER
One who, or that which, quiets. - GENTLEWOMAN
1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak. - DISTURBANCE
The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil; - QUIET
p. pf quiescere to rest, keep quiet; akin to quies rest, and prob. to E. while, n. See While, and cf. Coy, a., Quiesce, Quietus, Quit, a., 1. In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air. They - GENTLE-HEARTED
Having a kind or gentle disposition. Shak. -- Gen"tle-heart`ed*ness, n. - INNOXIOUS
1. Free from hurtful qualities or effects; harmless. "Innoxious flames." Sir K. Digby. 2. Free from crime; pure; innocent. Pope. -- In*nox`ious*ly, adv. -- In*nox"ious*ness, n. - INNOCUOUS
Harmless; producing no ill effect; innocent. A patient, innocuous, innocent man. Burton. -- In*noc"u*ous*ly, adv. -- In*noc"u*ous*ness, n. Where the salt sea innocuously breaks. Wordsworth. - GENTLEMANHOOD
The qualities or condition of a gentleman. Thackeray. - ROUSER
A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rouses. 2. Something very exciting or great. - QUIETISM
The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes. (more info) 1. Peace - GENTLEMANLIKE; GENTLEMANLY
Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well- behaved; courteous; polite. - QUIETSOME
Calm; still. Spenser. - DISQUIETTUDE
Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp. - TROUSERING
Cloth or material for making trousers. - EFFLAGITATE
To ask urgently. Cockeram. - DISQUIETLY
In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman. - UNQUIET
To disquiet. Ld. Herbert. - TROUSE
Trousers. Spenser. - DISQUIETMENT
State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment. Hopkins. - AROUSE
To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the - CHARMLESS
Destitute of charms. Swift. - CROUSE
Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent. Burns.