adiaphorous

adiaphorous
/ad'ee af"euhr euhs/, adj.
doing neither good nor harm, as a medicine.
[1625-35, for earlier sense; < Gk adiáphoros, equiv. to a- A-6 + diáphoros different (dia- DIA- + -phoros -PHOROUS)]

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