innocent > define
noun
- A person who lacks knowledge of evil.
- synonyms: inexperienced person
adjective
- Free from evil or guilt.
- usage: "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"
- synonyms: guiltless, clean-handed
- Lacking intent or capacity to injure.
- usage: "an innocent prank"
- synonyms: innocuous
- Free from sin.
- Lacking in sophistication or worldliness.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: ingenuous
- Not knowledgeable about something specified.
- usage: "American tourists wholly innocent of French"; "a person unacquainted with our customs"
- synonyms: unacquainted
- Completely wanting or lacking.
- usage: "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
- Used of things. ( lacking sense or awareness)
- usage: "fine innocent weather"
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (a.) Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright.
- (n.) An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot.
- (a.) Simple; artless; foolish.
- (n.) An innocent person; one free from or unacquainted with, guilt or sin.
- (a.) Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation.
- (a.) Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.
- (a.) Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged.
- (a.) Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Innocent is a masculine given name
- Name Meaning: From the Late Latin name Innocentius which was derived from innocens "innocent"
- Name Origin: English