innocent

adj.

1. Uncorrupted by evil, malice, or wrongdoing; sinless: an innocent child.
2. 1. Not guilty of a specific crime or offense; legally blameless: was innocent of all charges.
   2. Within, allowed by, or sanctioned by the law; lawful.
3. 1. Not dangerous or harmful; innocuous: an innocent prank.
   2. Candid; straightforward: a child's innocent stare.
4. 1. Not experienced or worldly; naive.
   2. Betraying or suggesting no deception or guile; artless.
5. 1. Not exposed to or familiar with something specified; ignorant: American tourists wholly innocent of French.
   2. Unaware: She remained innocent of the complications she had caused.
6. Lacking, deprived, or devoid of something: a novel innocent of literary merit.

n.

1. A person, especially a child, who is free of evil or sin.
2. A simple, guileless, inexperienced, or unsophisticated person.
3. A very young child.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin innocēns, innocent- : in-, not; see in-¹ + nocēns, present participle of nocēre, to harm.]

innocently in'no·cent·ly adv.

adjective

1. Free from evil and corruption: angelic, angelical, clean, lily-white, pure, sinless, unblemished, uncorrupted, undefiled, unstained, unsullied, untainted, virginal. Idioms: pure as the driven snow. See clean/dirty, right/wrong, sex/asexual.
2. Free from guilt or blame: blameless, faultless, guiltless, harmless, irreproachable, lily-white, unblamable. Slang clean. Idioms: in the clear. See right/wrong.
3. Within, allowed by, or sanctioned by the law: lawful, legal, legitimate, licit. Slang legit. See law.
4. Devoid of hurtful qualities: harmless, hurtless, innocuous, inoffensive, unoffensive. See help/harm/harmless.
5. Free from guile, cunning, or deceit: artless, guileless, ingenuous, naive, natural, simple, unaffected, unsophisticated, unstudied, unworldly. See honest/dishonest.
6. Not aware or informed: ignorant, oblivious, unacquainted, unaware, unconscious, unenlightened, unfamiliar, uninformed, unknowing, unwitting. Idioms: in the dark. See knowledge/ignorance.
7. Not having a desirable element: barren, destitute, devoid, empty, lacking, void, wanting. Idioms: in want of. See full/empty/capacity.

noun

1. A pure, uncorrupted person: angel, lamb, virgin. See clean/dirty, right/wrong.
2. A guileless, unsophisticated person: babe, child, ingénue, naive. Idioms: babe in the woods. See knowledge/ignorance.
3. A young person between birth and puberty: bud¹, child, juvenile, moppet, tot¹, youngster. Informal kid. Scots bairn. See kin, youth/age/maturity.

adj

Definition: blameless
Antonyms: bad, blamable, corrupt, evil, guilty, sinful

adj

Definition: harmless, naive
Antonyms: cunning, experienced, impure, knowledgeable, worldly

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Absent guilt; acting in good faith with no knowledge of defects, objections, or inculpative circumstances.

A person accused of and prosecuted for the commission of a crime is presumed innocent until proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

Not malignant; benign.

• i. bystander reaction — when antibody attaches to antigen bound to erythrocytes, the erythrocytes are marked for complement mediated lysis and phagocytosis by reticuloendothelial cells, these ‘innocent bystander’ cells are protected from lysis by complement components.

IN BRIEF: Free from guilt or wrong.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer. — Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780), English jurist, author.

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - uskyldig, uskadelig, harmløs, troskyldig, naiv, sagesløs
n. - uskyldighed

Nederlands (Dutch)
onschuldig, onschadelijk, naïef, onschuldige, naïeveling

Français (French)
adj. - (Jur) innocent, innocent, inoffensif, sans malice (une remarque), bénin (une erreur), anodin (une explication), naïf
n. - innocent

Deutsch (German)
n. - Unschuldiger
adj. - unschuldig

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αθώος
adj. - αθώος, απλοϊκός, αφελής, αγνός

Italiano (Italian)
innocente, ingenuo, innocuo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - pessoa (f) inocente
adj. - inocente

Русский (Russian)
невинный, простодушный, законный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - inocente, ingenuo, inofensivo
n. - persona inocente, ingenua o inofensiva

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - oskuldsfull person (isht barn), lättrogen person
adj. - oskuldsfull, naiv, okonstlad, oskyldig, harmlös, lättrogen

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
无罪的, 无知的, 不懂事的, 天真的人, 笨蛋

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 無罪的, 無知的, 不懂事的
n. - 天真的人, 笨蛋

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 순진한, 결백한, 무해의, ~이 없는
n. - 죄 없는 사람, 순진한 아이, 바보

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 清浄な, 罪のない, 潔白な, 無邪気な, 無邪気を装った, 全く…のない, お人よしの, 無知な, 無害な, 単純な, 純真な, 天真爛漫な
n. - インノケンティウス, 潔白な人, 無邪気な子供, トキワナズナ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الشخص البريء أو الساذج أو البسيط (صفه) بريء, ساذج, بسيط, غير مؤذ‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮חף מפשע, תם, תמים, טהור, פתי, לא מזיק‬
n. - ‮קורבן תמים של פשע או מלחמה‬

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