INNOCENT

innocent

(adjective) (used of things) lacking sense or awareness; “fine innocent weather”

barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent

(adjective) completely wanting or lacking; “writing barren of insight”; “young recruits destitute of experience”; “innocent of literary merit”; “the sentence was devoid of meaning”

innocent, innocuous

(adjective) lacking intent or capacity to injure; “an innocent prank”

innocent, guiltless, clean-handed

(adjective) free from evil or guilt; “an innocent child”; “the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty”

innocent, ingenuous

(adjective) 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”

impeccant, innocent, sinless

(adjective) free from sin

innocent, inexperienced person

(noun) a person who lacks knowledge of evil

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Innocent (plural Innocents)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Innocent is the 17432^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1618 individuals. Innocent is most common among Black/African American (84.73%) individuals.

Etymology

Adjective

innocent (comparative more innocent, superlative most innocent)

Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.

Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.

Naive; artless.

(obsolete, except medicine) Not harmful; innocuous; harmless; benign.

(with of) Having no knowledge (of something).

(with of) Lacking (something).

Lawful; permitted.

Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.

Synonyms

• (free from blame or guilt): sackless, guiltless

• (free from sin): pure, untainted

• (naive): See also naive

Antonyms

• (bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act): guilty, nocent

• (naive): perverse

Noun

innocent (plural innocents)

One who is innocent, especially a young child.

(obsolete) A harmless simple-minded person; an idiot.

Source: Wiktionary

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In"no*cent, a. Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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