-n. 5. ingenue, child, babe, infant, babe in the woods; lamb, dove, calf, pup, cub; greenhorn, beginner, novice. innocuous, adj. 1. harmless, innocent, uncorrupting, unhurtful, hurtless, safe, uninjurious; mild, moderate, soft, gentle, dovelike; domesticated, tame. See harmless.
2. inoffensive, unobnoxious, unobjectionable, above suspicion; unblameworthy, irreprehensible, irreproachable.
3. dull, uninspiring, uninteresting, dry, dry-as-dust; bland, insipid, jejune, flat, vapid; monotonous, humdrum, run-of-the-mill, commonplace, Sl. blah. innovate, v. Often innovate on or in make changes, introduce new blood, modernize, revolutionize; change, alter, transform, metamorphose; remodel, recast, restyle, renovate; coin, neologize, neoterize. innovation, n. novelty, new measure, Rare, novation, modernism, Inf. wrinkle, new wrinkle; change, alteration, transformation, metamorphosis; modernization, renovation, remodeling, recasting, restyling; coining, neoterism, neology, neologism, innuendo, n. insinuation, intimation, implication, allusion, suggestion, hint, inkling, cue; imputation, reflection, stricture, left-handed compliment, animadversion, criticism, aspersion, innumerable, adj. many, very many, myriad, untold, Inf. umpteen, Sl. skaty-eight, Sl. forty-'leven, Inf. more than one could shake a stick at, more than one can count; numberless, unnumbered, countless, infinite, incomputable, incalculable, inoculate, v. 1. immunize, give [s.o.] his shots, Med. vaccinate; protect, shield, safeguard.
2. indoctrinate, teach, instruct, train; (of ideas) instill, infix, implant, inculcate, ingrain, infuse, imbue, impregnate. inoculation, n. 1. immunization, Med. vaccination, injection, shot; protection, shield, safeguard.
2. indoctrination, teaching, instruction, training; (of ideas) inculcation, implanting, instilling, infixing, ingraining, infusion, imbuement, impregnation, inoffensive, adj. harmless, innocuous, innocent; unoffending, nonprovocative, quiet, unobjectionable. See innocuous (defs. 1,2). inoperative, adj. 1. not operative, not in operation, not in effect, not in force.
2. ineffectual, ineffective, inefficacious, inadequate, inefficient; useless, inutile, worthless, valueless, merit-less, nugatory.
3. futile, unavailing, bootless, fruitless, unproductive, abortive, barren, sterile, fallow, unprolific, infe-cund; unprofitable, profitless, unremunerative, unpaying, unrewarding, gainless; unsuccessful, to no purpose, to no avail, for naught.
4. unserviceable, collapsed, shattered, given way, broken, not functioning, out of order, out of commission; Inf. on the blink, Inf. on the fritz, Inf. out of kilter, Sl. out of whack, Sl. gone kerflooie, Sl. kaput, Sl. on the bum.
5. legally ineffectual, legally unenforceable, not binding, nonviable; invalid, null, void, null and void, annulled, nullified; set aside, quashed, vitiated, vacated, disestablished; canceled, discharged; repealed, revoked, rescinded, abolished, reversed, abrogated; renounced, repudiated, disclaimed, disavowed. inopportune, adj. 1. inconvenient, ill-timed, untimely, badly timed, unseasonable, coming at the wrong time and wrong place; unsuited, unsuitable, unfit, inappropriate, inapt, infelicitous, unseemly, out-of-place, malapropos, Inf. off-key, out-of-bounds, out-of-line, out-of-order.