hinnocent

Adjective

innocent (comparative more innocent, superlative most innocent)

1. Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
   • I'm sure there's an innocent explanation for all this.

   Synonyms:

   sackless, guiltless, blameless, pure, untainted

2. Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.

   Antonyms:

   guilty, nocent

3. Without wrongful intent; accidental or in good faith.
   • He didn't mean anything by it; it was an innocent mistake.
4. Naive; artless.
   • I can find out no rhyme to / 'lady' but 'baby' – an innocent rhyme;c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

   Synonyms:

   ingenuous, unworldly, artless, callow, childlike, verdant, clueless, credulous, dewy-eyed, cute

   Antonyms:

   perverse

5. (obsolete except medicine) Not harmful; innocuous; harmless; benign.
   • The spear / Sung innocent, and spent its force in air.1715–1720, Homer, “Book XXII”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC
6. (with-of) Lacking (something), or knowledge of it.
   • George was not a believer in modern innovations. The Abbey was innocent of anything so up to date as central heating.1929, Agatha Christie, chapter 17, in The Seven Dials Mystery

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