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noun

adjective

  • Free from evil or guilt.
    • usage: "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"
  • Lacking intent or capacity to injure.
    • usage: "an innocent prank"
  • 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"
  • Not knowledgeable about something specified.
    • usage: "American tourists wholly innocent of French"; "a person unacquainted with our customs"
  • 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
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