'Innocent' definitions:

Definition of 'innocent'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty" [syn: innocent, guiltless, clean-handed] [ant: guilty]
adjective
Lacking intent or capacity to injure; "an innocent prank" [syn: innocent, innocuous]
adjective
Free from sin [syn: impeccant, innocent, sinless]
adjective
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]
adjective
Not knowledgeable about something specified; "American tourists wholly innocent of French"; "a person unacquainted with our customs" [syn: innocent(p), unacquainted(p)]
adjective
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]
adjective
(used of things) lacking sense or awareness; "fine innocent weather"
noun
A person who lacks knowledge of evil [syn: innocent, inexperienced person]

Definition of 'Innocent'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • The spear Sung innocent, and spent its force in air. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright. [1913 Webster]
  • To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. --Matt. xxvii. 4. [1913 Webster]
  • The aidless, innocent lady, his wished prey. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged. [1913 Webster]
  • Innocent from the great transgression. --Ps. xix. 13. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Simple; artless; foolish. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Innocent'

From: GCIDE
  • Innocent \In"no*cent\, n.
  • 1. An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
  • In Scotland a natural fool was called an innocent. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
  • Innocents' day (Eccl.), Childermas day. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'innocent'

From: Moby Thesaurus