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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a person who lacks knowledge of evil;
[syn: innocent, inexperienced person]


ADJECTIVE (7)

1. free from evil or guilt;
- Example: "an innocent child"
- Example: "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"
[syn: innocent, guiltless, clean-handed]

2. lacking intent or capacity to injure;
- Example: "an innocent prank"
[syn: innocent, innocuous]

3. free from sin;
[syn: impeccant, innocent, sinless]

4. lacking in sophistication or worldliness;
- Example: "a child's innocent stare"
- Example: "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it"
[syn: innocent, ingenuous]

5. not knowledgeable about something specified;
- Example: "American tourists wholly innocent of French"
- Example: "a person unacquainted with our customs"
[syn: innocent(p), unacquainted(p)]

6. completely wanting or lacking;
- Example: "writing barren of insight"
- Example: "young recruits destitute of experience"
- Example: "innocent of literary merit"
- Example: "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
[syn: barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent]

7. (used of things) lacking sense or awareness;
- Example: "fine innocent weather"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Innocent \In"no*cent\, a. [F. innocent, L. innocens, -entis;
   pref. in- not + nocens, p. pr. of nocere to harm, hurt. See
   Noxious.]
   1. Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious;
      innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.
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            The spear
            Sung innocent, and spent its force in air. --Pope.
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   2. Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin;
      pure; upright.
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            To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb. --Shak.
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            I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent
            blood.                                --Matt. xxvii.
                                                  4.
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            The aidless, innocent lady, his wished prey.
                                                  --Milton.
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   3. Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as,
      a man is innocent of the crime charged.
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            Innocent from the great transgression. --Ps. xix.
                                                  13.
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   4. Simple; artless; foolish. --Shak.
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   5. Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade.
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   6. Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent
      goods carried to a belligerent nation.
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   Innocent party (Law),a party who has not notice of a fact
      tainting a litigated transaction with illegality.

   Syn: Harmless; innoxious; innoffensive; guiltless; spotless;
        immaculate; pure; unblamable; blameless; faultless;
        guileless; upright.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Innocent \In"no*cent\, n.
   1. An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with,
      guilt or sin. --Shak.
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   2. An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an
      idiot. --B. Jonson.
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            In Scotland a natural fool was called an innocent.
                                                  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   Innocents' day (Eccl.), Childermas day.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

innocent
    adj 1: free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the
           principle that one is innocent until proved guilty" [syn:
           innocent, guiltless, clean-handed] [ant: guilty]
    2: lacking intent or capacity to injure; "an innocent prank"
       [syn: innocent, innocuous]
    3: free from sin [syn: impeccant, innocent, sinless]
    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"
       [syn: innocent, ingenuous]
    5: not knowledgeable about something specified; "American
       tourists wholly innocent of French"; "a person unacquainted
       with our customs" [syn: innocent(p), unacquainted(p)]
    6: completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight";
       "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of
       literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [syn:
       barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent]
    7: (used of things) lacking sense or awareness; "fine innocent
       weather"
    n 1: a person who lacks knowledge of evil [syn: innocent,
         inexperienced person]