About The Word Inoffensive
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Inoffensive
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What's The Definition Of Inoffensive?
[adj] of an inoffensive substitute for offensive terminology; "`peepee' is a common euphemistic term"
[adj] causing no harm; "an inoffensive animal" [adj] not offensive; "an inoffensive level" [adj] giving no offense; "a quiet inoffensive man"; "a refreshing inoffensive stimulant" [adj] morally respectable or inoffensive; "a past that was scarcely savory" [adj] not causing anger or annoyance; "inoffensive behavior" Synonyms | Synonyms for Inoffensive: euphemistic | harmless | innocuous | offenceless | offenseless | savory | savoury | uncontroversial | unobjectionable | unoffending Related Terms | Find terms related to Inoffensive: admissible | allowable | benign | condonable | defensible | dispensable | excusable | exemptible | expiable | forgivable | harmless | innocent | innocuous | justifiable | legitimate | nonmalignant | nonpoisonous | nontoxic | nonvirulent | pardonable | reasonable | remissible | undamaging | unhurtful | uninjurious | unobjectionable | unobnoxious | unoffending | venial | vindicable | warrantable See Also | Inoffensive In Webster's Dictionary \In"of*fen"sive\, a. [Pref. in- not + offensiue: cf.
F. inoffensif.]
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.
[R.] --Milton.
So have Iseen a river gintly glide In a smooth
course, and inoffensive tide. --Addison.
-- {In"of*fen"sive*ly}, adv. -- {In"of*fen"sive*ness}, n.
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