Inoffensive
[ɪnə'fensɪv] or [,ɪnə'fɛnsɪv]
Definition
(adj.) giving no offense; 'a quiet inoffensive man'; 'a refreshing inoffensive stimulant' .
(adj.) not causing anger or annoyance; 'inoffensive behavior' .
Checker: Mattie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance.
(a.) Harmless; doing no injury or mischief.
(a.) Not obstructing; presenting no interruption bindrance.
Typist: Tito
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Harmless, unoffending, innocuous, innoxious, innocent.
Checked by Elton
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See OFFENSIVE]
Editor: Moll
Definition
adj. giving no offence: harmless: not unpleasing.—adv. Inoffen′sively.—n. Inoffen′siveness.
Typist: Vivienne
Examples
- His habits were regular, his conduct inoffensive. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But this latter Utopian object (in short sleeves) always appeared to be the great inoffensive aim of her existence. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Why, had I been Nero himself, I could not have tormented a being inoffensive as a shadow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The tinge of unpretentious, inoffensive vulgarity in Mrs. Vincy gave more effect to Rosamond's refinement, which was beyond what Lydgate had expected. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Our place is,' said the easy young Barnacle, 'the most inoffensive place possible. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- By nature inoffensive, friendly, and obliging, his presentation at St. James's had made him courteous. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Medical authorities agree in considering the daily consumption of 1 gramme as being not only perfectly inoffensive, but decidedly beneficial to health. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
Typist: Vivienne