innocent

  • (a) free from evil or guilt
    • an innocent child
    • the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty
    clean-handed, guiltless,
  • (s) lacking intent or capacity to injure
    • an innocent prank
    innocuous,
  • (s) free from sin impeccant, sinless,
  • (s) 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
    ingenuous,
  • (s) not knowledgeable about something specified
    • American tourists wholly innocent of French
    • a person unacquainted with our customs
    unacquainted,
  • (s) completely wanting or lacking
    • writing barren of insight
    • young recruits destitute of experience
    • innocent of literary merit
    • the sentence was devoid of meaning
    devoid, destitute, barren, free,
  • (s) (used of things) lacking sense or awareness
    • fine innocent weather

Nouns

Synonyms

clean-handed guiltless inexperienced person innocuous impeccant sinless ingenuous unacquainted devoid destitute barren free

Antonyms

guilty

See also

exculpatory righteous

Words of close approximity

Innocent III innocently Innocents' Day Innocent VIII Innocent XI Innocent XII