innoxious
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But of all wayes of hastening the Clarification and Ripening of new Wine, none seems to me to be either more easie, or more innoxious, than that borrowed from one of the Ancients by the Lord Chancellor Bacon, […] which is by putting the wine into vessels well stopped, and letting it down into the Sea."
- "The Jav'lin idly fled, / And hiss'd innoxious o'er the Hero’s Head […]"
- "Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity."
- "Considering that milk is used by persons of all constitutions,—by the young and the aged, and by persons suffering from fever,—the use of a foreign material like borax, in one of the most important of all foods, ought to be restricted, unless it can be shown by authority to be innoxious."
Etymology
From Latin innoxius.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: innoxius
Usage
Inflected Forms
more innoxious (comparative)
most innoxious (superlative)