blameless
blameless adjective: free from blame; without fault; innocent.
Adjective
blameless (comparative more blameless, superlative most blameless)
- Free from blame; without fault; innocent.
- And while American Jews do not hold the left blameless, in the age of Trump, we’re a lot more concerned about right-wing anti-Semitism.2020, Joel Swanson, “Are anti-Semitism fears stopping Jewish Dems from supporting Bernie Sanders?”, in The Forward
- Synonyms:
- guiltless, unblameable, sackless, clean, clean-handed, clean as a hound's tooth, clean as a whistle, clear, dovelike, innocent
- Not meriting blame or censure; undeserving of reproof.
- He shall be as now nameles,
But he shall not be blameles,
Nor he shall not be shameles;
For sure he wrought amys, […]c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 38–41
- Synonyms:
- nonblameworthy, unblameworthy
- He shall be as now nameles,
blameless meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
blameless in Hindi
- free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless
- निर्दोष nirdoṣ
- not meriting blame or censure; undeserving of reproof
- निर्दोष nirdoṣ
blameless in Marathi
- blameless, innocent
- निर्दोष nirdoṣ
blameless in Urdu
- free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless
- نردوش
blameless in Bengali
- blameless
- শুচি śuci
More languagesFewer languages
- blameless in Malayalam
- നിർദ്ദോഷ, കുറ്റമറ്റ, വദ്യ, നിരപരാധിയായ
- blameless in Sanskrit
- निर्दोष nirdoṣa
Synonyms of blameless
- guiltless
- unblameable
- sackless
- clean
- clean-handed
- clean as a hound's tooth
- clean as a whistle
- clear
- dovelike
- innocent
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Forms of blameless
| comparative | more blameless |
|---|---|
| superlative | most blameless |
Origin of blameless
From Middle English blameles, equivalent to blame + -less.
Words formed from blameless
Questions about blameless
- What does blameless mean?
- Blameless means free from blame; without fault; innocent.
- What is blameless in Hindi?
- Blameless in Hindi is निर्दोष (nirdoṣ). See Blameless meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is blameless?
- Blameless is an adjective.
Words near blameless in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: blameless (page history and authors); निर्दोष (Marathi) (page history and authors); শুচি (Bengali) (page history and authors); blameless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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