inoffensive
inoffensive adjective: not offensive.
Adjective
inoffensive (comparative more inoffensive, superlative most inoffensive)
- not offensive
- an inoffensive joke
- [S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […]1765, Catherine Jemmat, The Memoirs of Mrs. Catherine Jemmat, Daughter of the Late Admiral Yeo, of Plymouth. Written by Herself, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed for the author, at...
- harmless
- an inoffensive plant
inoffensive meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
inoffensive in Tamil
- மனதைப் புண்படுத்தாத, எரிச்சலூட்டாத, நோகடிக்காத, சாதுவான
inoffensive in Urdu
- بےآزار, بےنقصان, بےضرر
inoffensive in Bengali
- অনাপত্তিকর, ক্ষতিহীন, নিরীহ
inoffensive in Malayalam
- unobjectionable, harmless, innocuous
- മുഷിപ്പിക്കാത്ത, ദോഷം ചെയ്യാത്ത, യാതൊരു ദ്രോഹവും ചെയ്യാത്ത, നിരുപദ്രവകരമായ, നിർബാധ, ഉപദ്രവമില്ലാത്ത
More languagesFewer languages
- inoffensive in Kannada
- ಕೆಡುಕು ಮಾಡದ, ನೋವುಂಟು ಮಾಡದ, ಅವಮಾನ ಮಾಡದ, ಸಾಧು ಸ್ವಭಾವದ
Examples of inoffensive in a sentence
- A harmless dog is killed, an inoffensive man's reason, if not his life, endangered.
- It is green on the Tube map, an inoffensive colour.
- You’re just a poor, inoffensive Mumma’s boy.”
Synonyms of inoffensive
Forms of inoffensive
| comparative | more inoffensive |
|---|---|
| superlative | most inoffensive |
Origin of inoffensive
From in- + offensive.
Words formed from inoffensive
- inoffensively
- inoffensiveness
- inoffensivism
- inoffensivity
Questions about inoffensive
- What does inoffensive mean?
- Inoffensive means not offensive.
- What is inoffensive in Tamil?
- Inoffensive in Tamil is மனதைப் புண்படுத்தாத, எரிச்சலூட்டாத, நோகடிக்காத. See Inoffensive meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is inoffensive?
- Inoffensive is an adjective.
Words near inoffensive in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: inoffensive (page history and authors); inoffensive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inoffensive (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Inoffensive (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inoffensive (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); inoffensive (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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