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innoxious

innoxious adjective: having no harmful effect; harmless, innocuous.

Adjective

innoxious (comparative more innoxious, superlative most innoxious)

  1. (archaic) Having no harmful effect; harmless, innocuous.
    • But of all wayes of hastening the Clarification and Ripening of new Wine, none seems to me to be either more easie, or more innoxious, than that borrowed from one of the Ancients by the Lord Chancellor Bacon, […] which is by putting the wine into vessels well stopped, and letting it down into the...1669, Walter Charleton, “Of the Mysterie of Vintners”, in Two Discourses, London: William Whitwood, page 165
    • The Jav'lin idly fled, / And hiss'd innoxious o'er the Hero’s Head […]1720, Homer, “Book XVII”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, volume V, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 31

innoxious meaning in Tamil and Kannada

innoxious in Tamil

தீங்கற்ற

innoxious in Kannada

ನಿರುಪದ್ರವಿ, ಕೇಡುಂಟುಮಾಡದ, ಹಾನಿ ಮಾಡದ, ತೊಂದರೆ ಮಾಡದ

Synonyms of innoxious

Forms of innoxious

comparativemore innoxious
superlativemost innoxious

Origin of innoxious

From Latin innoxius.

Words formed from innoxious

Questions about innoxious

What does innoxious mean?
Innoxious means having no harmful effect; harmless, innocuous.
What is innoxious in Tamil?
Innoxious in Tamil is தீங்கற்ற. See Innoxious meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is innoxious?
Innoxious is an adjective.

Words near innoxious in the dictionary

  1. innovention
  2. innoventions
  3. innoventor
  4. innoventors
  5. innovents
  6. innoxious
  7. innoxiously
  8. innoxiousness
  9. inns
  10. Inns of Court
  11. Innsbruck

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