noun
- A person who lacks knowledge of evil.
- synonyms: inexperienced person
adjective
- Free from evil or guilt.
- usage: "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"
- synonyms: guiltless, clean-handed
- Lacking intent or capacity to injure.
- usage: "an innocent prank"
- synonyms: innocuous
- 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"
- synonyms: ingenuous
- Not knowledgeable about something specified.
- usage: "American tourists wholly innocent of French"; "a person unacquainted with our customs"
- synonyms: unacquainted
- 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"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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