innocent[adjective]Synonyms:- not guilty, blameless, guiltless, honest, in the clear, uninvolved
- harmless, innocuous, inoffensive, unobjectionable, well-intentioned, well-meant
- naive, artless, childlike, credulous, gullible, ingenuous, open, simple, unworldly
Antonyms: guilty
Contrasted words: harmful, injurious, mischievous
Related Idioms: in the clear
Related Words: unstained,
unsullied,
white,
white-handed [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
I. in‧no‧cent1 W3 /ˈɪnəs
ənt/
adjective [
Word Family: noun:
innocence,
innocent;
adverb:
innocently;
adjective:
innocent]
[
Date: 1300-1400;
Language: French;
Origin: Latin, from nocens 'evil', present participle of nocere 'to harm']
1. not guilty of a crime
Antonym : guilty:
Nobody would believe that I was innocent.innocent of He’s innocent of murder. The court found him innocent and he was released.2. innocent victims/bystanders/people etc people who get hurt or killed in a war or crime although they are not directly involved in it:
Many innocent civilians are among the casualties.3. done or said without intending to harm or offend anyone:
He was startled by their angry reaction to his innocent remark.4. not having much experience of the bad things in the world, so that you are easily deceived
Synonym : naive:
I was thirteen years old and very innocent.—innocently adverb [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲