innocent

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innocent

A child gives an innocent smile to her mother.

Definition

  1. Adjective:

    • Free from evil or guilt: Not having committed a crime or offense; blameless.
    • Lacking in sophistication or worldliness: Naive, simple, or pure, often due to a lack of experience.
    • Lacking intent or capacity to injure: Not meant to cause harm; harmless.
    • Completely wanting or lacking in something: Devoid of a particular quality or element.

  2. Noun:

    • A person who lacks knowledge of evil: An innocent person, especially a child or a naive individual.
    • A person who is free from guilt: Someone who is not responsible for a crime or wrongdoing.
Examples

  • Adjective:

    • The jury found the defendant innocent of all charges.
    • She gave him an innocent smile, unaware of the trouble she had caused.
    • It was just an innocent question; I didn't mean to offend anyone.
    • The walls were innocent of any decoration.

  • Noun:

    • The war claimed the lives of many innocents.
    • He was portrayed as an innocent caught in a corrupt system.
Advanced Usage

  • "Innocent of": Lacking or devoid of something.

    • The report was innocent of any factual errors. (The report was completely free from factual errors.)

  • "Presumed innocent": The legal principle that a person is considered not guilty until proven otherwise.

    • In many legal systems, an accused person is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Variants and Related Words

  • Innocence (n): The state, quality, or fact of being innocent.

    • Her innocence was evident in her trusting nature.

  • Innocently (adv): In an innocent manner.

    • He innocently repeated the secret he had overheard.
Synonyms
  • Adjective: Blameless, guiltless, sinless, pure, naive, harmless, ingenuous.
  • Noun: Naif, ingénue.
Antonyms
  • Adjective: Guilty, culpable, worldly, sophisticated, harmful.
  • Noun: Culprit, offender.
Related Phrases

  • "Innocent bystander": A person who is present at an event without being involved, especially one who is harmed as a result.

    • The gunfire injured two innocent bystanders.

  • "Play the innocent": To pretend to be naive or unaware.

    • Don't play the innocent with me; I know you took the keys.
innocent

A child gives an innocent smile to her mother.

Adjective
  1. (used of things) lacking sense or awareness
    • fine innocent weather
  2. completely wanting or lacking
    • writing barren of insight
    • young recruits destitute of experience
    • innocent of literary merit
    • the sentence was devoid of meaning
  3. not knowledgeable about something specified
    • American tourists wholly innocent of French
    • a person unacquainted with our customs
  4. lacking in sophistication or worldliness
    • 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
  5. free from sin
  6. lacking intent or capacity to injure
    • an innocent prank
  7. free from evil or guilt
    • an innocent child
    • the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty
Noun
  1. a person who lacks knowledge of evil

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