innocent
Adjective
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Free from evil or guilt (synset 301322826)
"an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"also:
- exculpatory - clearing of guilt or blame
- righteous - characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice
similar to:- absolved, clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated - freed from any question of guilt
- acquitted, not guilty - declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless
- blameless, inculpable, irreproachable, unimpeachable - free of guilt; not subject to blame
same as: clean-handed, guiltless -
Lacking intent or capacity to injure (synset 301163451)
"an innocent prank"similar to: harmless - not causing or capable of causing harmsame as: innocuous
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Free from sin (synset 302523672)
similar to: virtuous - morally excellent
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Lacking in sophistication or worldliness (synset 302280420)
"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"similar to: naif, naive - marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experiencesame as: ingenuous
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Not knowledgeable about something specified (synset 301312175)
"American tourists wholly innocent of French"; "a person unacquainted with our customs"similar to: uninformed - not informed; lacking in knowledge or informationsame as: unacquainted
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Completely wanting or lacking (synset 300931219)
"writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"similar to: nonexistent - not having existence or being or actuality
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(used of things) lacking sense or awareness (synset 300574656)
"fine innocent weather"domain usage: archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expressionsimilar to: unconscious - not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead
Noun
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A person who lacks knowledge of evil (synset 109644529)
subtypes:same as: inexperienced person
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