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Innocent

Innocent Meaning & Definition
Innocent Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Innocent?

[n] a person who lacks knowledge of evil
[adj] (archaic) used of things; lacking sense or awareness; "ignorant hope"; "fine innocent weather"
[adj] lacking intent or capacity to injure; "an innocent prank"
[adj] free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"
[adj] lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "a child's innocent stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it"
[adj] free from sin

Synonyms | Synonyms for Innocent: absolved | acquitted | blameless | clean-handed | clear | cleared | exculpated | exonerated | guiltless | harmless | ignorant | impeccant | inculpable | inexperienced person | ingenuous | innocuous | irreproachable | naif | naive | not guilty | sinless | unconscious | unimpeachable | vindicated | virtuous

Related Terms | Find terms related to Innocent: above suspicion | angel | angelic | artless | awkward | babe | bairn | beginner | benign | blameless | blankminded | blotless | bluff | blunt | boob | born yesterday | budding | callow | candid | chaste | cherub | child | child of nature | childlike | chit | chump | cinch | clean | cleanly | clear | confiding | credulous | credulous person | cull | darling | dependent | depending | destitute | dewy | direct | dove | dovelike | dumb | dupe | easy mark | easy pickings | empty | empty-headed | exemplary | fall guy | faultless | fish | fool | frank | gauche | gobe-mouches | green | greener | greenhorn | greeny | groping | growing | gudgeon | guileless | guiltless | gull | gullible | harmless | hick | honest | ignorant | immaculate | immature | impubic | in the clear | inane | incorrupt | inculpable | inexperienced | infant | ingenu | ingenue | ingenuous | innocuous | inoffensive | intact | irreproachable | juicy | kid | kitten | know-nothing | lamb | lambkin | lamblike | leadpipe cinch | legal | legitimate | licit | little bugger | little fellow | little guy | little innocent | little one | little tad | little tot | lout | mere child | minor | mite | monkey | naive | nescient | newborn babe | newcomer | new-fledged | nipper | noble savage | nonmalignant | nonpoisonous | nontoxic | nonvirulent | not guilty | novice | oaf | offenseless | offspring | open | openhearted | outspoken | patsy | peewee | pigeon | plain | plaything | prelapsarian | pristine | prize sap | pure | pure in heart | purehearted | pushover | raw | reliant | relying | reproachless | righteous | ripening | rube | safe | sans reproche | sap | saphead | sappy | schlemiel | sexually innocent | shaver | simple | simple soul | simplehearted | simpleminded | sincere | single-hearted | single-minded | sinless | sitting duck | snowy | spotless | stainless | stooge | strange to | sucker | tad | taintless | tender | tentative | tot | toy | trustful | trusting | trusting soul | trusty | unacquainted | unadult | unaffected | unapprized | unartificial | unblamable | unblemished | unblotted | uncomprehending | unconversant | uncorrupt | uncorrupted | undamaging | undefiled | underage | undeveloped | unenlightened | unfallen | unfamiliar | unfledged | unformed | unguarded | unhurtful | unilluminated | unimpeachable | uninformed | uninitiated | uninjurious | unintelligent | unknowing | unlapsed | unlicked | unmellowed | unobjectionable | unobnoxious | unoffending | unpolluted | unposted | unreserved | unripe | unschooled | unseasoned | unsoiled | unsophisticate | unsophisticated | unspotted | unstained | unstudied | unsullied | unsure | unsuspecting | unsuspicious | untainted | untarnished | untouched by evil | unversed | unwary | unworldly | vacuous | vernal | victim | virginal | virtuous | void | wee tot | well-intentioned | white | with clean hands | without reproach | without suspicion | yokel

See Also | boy scout | dear | exculpatory | human | individual | lamb | mortal | person | righteous | somebody | someone | soul | virgin

Innocent In Webster's Dictionary

\In"no*cent\, a. [F. innocent, L. innocens, -entis; pref. in- not + nocens, p. pr. of nocere to harm, hurt. See {Noxious}.] 1. Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy. The spear Sung innocent,and spent its force in air. --Pope. 2. Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright. To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb. --Shak. I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. --Matt. xxvii. 4. The aidless,innocent lady, his wished prey. --Milton. 3. Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged. Innocent from the great transgression. --Ps. xix. 13. 4. Simple; artless; foolish. --Shak. 5. Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade. 6. Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation. {Innocent party} (Law),a party who has not notice of a fact tainting a litigated transaction with illegality. Syn: Harmless; innoxious; innoffensive; guiltless; spotless; immaculate; pure; unblamable; blameless; faultless; guileless; upright.
\In"no*cent\, n. 1. An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin. --Shak. 2. An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot. --B. Jonson. In Scotland a natural fool was called an innocent. --Sir W. Scott. {Innocents' day} (Eccl.), Childermas day.

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