Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Harmful; noxious.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Noxious; hurtful.
- Specifically, venomous or poisonous, as a serpent: thanatophidian; of or pertaining to the Nocua.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Hurtful; noxious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Likely to cause
harm or damage
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Perfume or cologne applied on top of body odor combines to a nocuous smell for others.
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The internet makes periodic, seemingly in-nocuous appearances throughout Jennifer Egan's new novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad.
Friend This Novel! 2010
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Somewhere during the week shoulder pads became tied to an economic slowdown as did an almost nocuous kaleidoscope of color patterns.
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As long as we have media celebrities like George Stephanopoulus and Bill O'Reilly constantly confronting McCain on this nocuous association with a man who feels that in a year of the most catastrophic attack on our country that it was a good year for him, the voter will know the truth ... right?
Did You Hear What John McCain's Unrepentant Friend, Who He Sought Support From, Said? 2008
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That innocuous graphic shows that we have a decidedly nocuous problem.
Archive 2007-10-01 Zoe Brain 2007
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That innocuous graphic shows that we have a decidedly nocuous problem.
Bucks, Boomers, and Buck Rogers Zoe Brain 2007
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Hassem had most likely purchased blossoms that were cut or plucked improperly, and therefore had lost some of their nocuous powers.
Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994
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The reaction was first described in Nature as “a syndrome produced by diverse nocuous agents.”
Handbook of Stress Leo Goldberger 1993
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Under cover of in-nocuous conversation designed to allay the interest of the soldier's two associates, they proceeded to study his per'sonal desk monitor.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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Elric had witnessed many obscenities in his life and was moved by few of them, but this device, though superficially more in - nocuous than much he had seen, brought bile into his mouth.
The Vanishing Tower Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1970
pomegranate commented on the word nocuous
vs. innocuous
January 11, 2008
qms commented on the word nocuous
The man seemed a comical crock to us,
But Trumpland turned out to be populous.
The boastful jamoke
No longer's a joke -
The goblin has won and he's nocuous.
September 6, 2017