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in·noc·u·ous /ɪˈnɒkjuəs $ ɪˈnɑːk-/ adjective HARM/BE BAD FOROFFENDnot offensive, dangerous, or harmful 无冒犯之意的；不危险的；无害的 SYN harmless an innocuous remark 无恶意的话 He’s a perfectly innocuous young man. 他是个毫无恶意的年轻人。 —innocuously adverbExamples from the Corpusinnocuous• The producer dismissed the comment as quite innocuous.• innocuous chemicals• The murder suspect was an innocuous-looking man with wire-framed glasses.• Someone stood up and asked the professor an apparently innocuous question about his laboratory work.• The interviewer only asked boring, innocuous questions.Origin innocuous (1500-1600) Latin innocuus, from nocere; → INNOCENT1in·noc·u·ous adjectiveChineseSyllable offensive, not Corpus dangerous, or harmful |