Search Result for "inoffensive":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. not causing anger or annoyance;
- Example: "inoffensive behavior"
[syn: inoffensive, unoffending]
2. giving no offense;
- Example: "a quiet inoffensive man"
- Example: "a refreshing inoffensive stimulant"
3. substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one;
- Example: "`peepee' is a common euphemistic term"
[syn: euphemistic, inoffensive]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Inoffensive \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. [1913 Webster] 2. Harmless; doing no injury or mischief. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. Not obstructing; presenting no interruption or hindrance. [R.] --Milton. [1913 Webster] So have I seen a river gently glide In a smooth course, and inoffensive tide. --Addison. -- In"of*fen"sive*ly, adv. -- In"of*fen"sive*ness, n. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
