What is the meaning of innocent?

noun

adjective

  • Free from evil or guilt.
    • usage: "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"
  • Lacking intent or capacity to injure.
    • usage: "an innocent prank"
  • Free from sin.
  • Lacking in sophistication or worldliness.
    • usage: "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"
  • Not knowledgeable about something specified.
    • usage: "American tourists wholly innocent of French"; "a person unacquainted with our customs"
  • Completely wanting or lacking.
    • usage: "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
  • Used of things. ( lacking sense or awareness)
    • usage: "fine innocent weather"
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APAWordNet. (2010). innocent. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/innocent/definitions/1176631
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MLAWordNet. "innocent" 23 October 2010. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/innocent/definitions/1176631>
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