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| 1. | [ adjective ] free from evil or guilt | |
| Synonyms: | clean-handed guiltless | |
| Examples: | "an innocent child" "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty" |
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| Related terms: | guilty absolved blameless acquitted righteous exculpatory | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] lacking intent or capacity to injure | |
| Synonyms: | innocuous | |
| Examples: | "an innocent prank" |
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| Related terms: | harmless | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] lacking in sophistication or worldliness | |
| Synonyms: | ingenuous | |
| Examples: | "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" |
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| Related terms: | naive | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] free from sin | |
| Synonyms: | sinless impeccant | |
| Related terms: | virtuous | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] (archaic) used of things; lacking sense or awareness | |
| Synonyms: | ignorant | |
| Examples: | "ignorant hope" "fine innocent weather" |
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| Related terms: | archaism unconscious | |
| 6. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 14290 | |
| 7. | [ noun ] a person who lacks knowledge of evil | |
| Synonyms: | inexperienced_person | |
| Related terms: | person virgin boy_scout lamb | |
| Similar spelling: |
innocently innocent_of innocense innocence incentive Inocencio Inocencia income incongruent income_tax inguen Inconel incense insentient incontinent insentience inessential incumbent incensed |
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