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Word Meanings - INNOXIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Free from hurtful qualities or effects; harmless. "Innoxious flames." Sir K. Digby. 2. Free from crime; pure; innocent. Pope. -- In*nox`ious*ly, adv. -- In*nox"ious*ness, n.

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  • HARMLESS
    1. Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless. 2. Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive. " The harmless deer." Drayton Syn. -- Innocent; innoxious; innocuous; inoffensive; unoffending; unhurt;
  • INNOCENTLY
    In an innocent manner.
  • INOFFENSIVE
    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. Milton.
  • GENTLEWOMAN
    1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.
  • GENTLE-HEARTED
    Having a kind or gentle disposition. Shak. -- Gen"tle-heart`ed*ness, n.
  • INNOXIOUS
    1. Free from hurtful qualities or effects; harmless. "Innoxious flames." Sir K. Digby. 2. Free from crime; pure; innocent. Pope. -- In*nox`ious*ly, adv. -- In*nox"ious*ness, n.
  • INNOCUOUS
    Harmless; producing no ill effect; innocent. A patient, innocuous, innocent man. Burton. -- In*noc"u*ous*ly, adv. -- In*noc"u*ous*ness, n. Where the salt sea innocuously breaks. Wordsworth.
  • GENTLEMANHOOD
    The qualities or condition of a gentleman. Thackeray.
  • GENTLEMANLIKE; GENTLEMANLY
    Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well- behaved; courteous; polite.
  • GENTLE
    F. gentil noble, pretty, graceful, fr. L. gentilis of the same clan or race, fr. gens, gentis, tribe, clan, race, orig. that which belongs together by birth, fr. the root of genere, gignere, to beget; hence gentle, properly, of birth or family,
  • INNOCENT
    1. Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy. The spear Sung innocent,and spent its force in air. Pope. 2. Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin;
  • GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENT
    An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract.
  • GENTLENESS
    The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.
  • GENTLEMAN
    One who bears arms, but has no title. 4. The servant of a man of rank. The count's gentleman, one Cesario. Shak. 5. A man, irrespective of condition; -- used esp. in the plural (= citizens; people), in addressing men in popular assemblies, etc.
  • GENTLEMANLINESS
    The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners.
  • GENTLESHIP
    The deportment or conduct of a gentleman. Ascham.
  • GENTLESSE
    Gentilesse; gentleness.
  • GENTLEMANSHIP
    The carriage or quality of a gentleman.
  • CHARMLESS
    Destitute of charms. Swift.
  • UNGENTLE
    Not gentle; lacking good breeding or delicacy; harsh. Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind. Shak. That ungentle flavor which distinguishes nearly all our native and uncultivated grapes. Hawthorne. -- Un*gen"tle*ness, n. -- Un*gen"tly, adv.
  • FLOWER-GENTLE
    A species of amaranth .
  • OLD-GENTLEMANLY
    Pertaining to an old gentleman, or like one. Byron.

 

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