Word Meanings - INOFFENSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: 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. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INOFFENSIVE)

• Harmless
• Innocuous
• innoxious
• inoffensive
• innocent
• gentle
• Inoffensive
• harmless
• wholesome
• Peaceable
• unwarlike
• quiet
• peaceful
• innocuous
• mild
• unquarrelsome
• serene
• placid

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INOFFENSIVE)

• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad

Related words: (words related to INOFFENSIVE)

• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• 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;
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• PLACID
  Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay.
• 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.
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• PLACIDNESS
  The quality or state of being placid.
• QUIETER
  One who, or that which, quiets.
• 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.
• DISTURBANCE
  The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil;
• QUIET
  p. pf quiescere to rest, keep quiet; akin to quies rest, and prob. to E. while, n. See While, and cf. Coy, a., Quiesce, Quietus, Quit, a., 1. In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air. They
• 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.
• GENTLE-HEARTED
  Having a kind or gentle disposition. Shak. -- Gen"tle-heart`ed*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.
• ROUSER
  A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rouses. 2. Something very exciting or great.
• QUIETISM
  The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes. (more info) 1. Peace
• GENTLEMANLIKE; GENTLEMANLY
  Of, pertaining to, resembling, or becoming, a gentleman; well- behaved; courteous; polite.
• QUIETSOME
  Calm; still. Spenser.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• UNQUIET
  To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• DISQUIETMENT
  State of being disquieted; uneasiness; harassment. Hopkins.
• AROUSE
  To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the
• CHARMLESS
  Destitute of charms. Swift.
• CROUSE
  Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent. Burns.