inoffensive
English
Etymology
Adjective
inoffensive (comparative more inoffensive, superlative most inoffensive)
- not offensive
- an inoffensive joke
- 1765, Catherine Jemmat, The Memoirs of Mrs. Catherine Jemmat, Daughter of the Late Admiral Yeo, of Plymouth. Written by Herself, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed for the author, at Charing-Cross, →OCLC, page 145:
- [S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […]
- harmless
- an inoffensive plant
Derived terms
Translations
not offensive
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harmless
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French
Adjective
inoffensive
Italian
Adjective
inoffensive
- (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective inoffensivo.