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innocentest

innocentest is the superlative form of innocent.

Meaning of innocent

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.
  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...
    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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What is innocentest the superlative form of?
Innocentest is the superlative form of innocent.

Words near innocentest in the dictionary

  1. innocent bystander
  2. innocent bystanders
  3. innocent passage
  4. innocente
  5. innocenter
  6. innocentest
  7. Innocenti
  8. Innocentis
  9. innocently
  10. innocently divorced
  11. innocentness

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