Innocent

Definition: Innocent

Innocent

Adjective

1. Free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty".

2. Lacking intent or capacity to injure; "an innocent prank".

3. Free from sin.

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".

5. (archaic) used of things; lacking sense or awareness; "ignorant hope"; "fine innocent weather".

Noun

1. A person who lacks knowledge of evil.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Innocent" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "to be innocent".

Date "innocent" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Biographical Satire

Literature

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Synonyms: Innocent

Accusation

Phrase: "the breath of accusation kills an innocent name"; "thou can'st not say I did it".

Artlessness

Adjective: artless, natural, pure, native, confiding, simple, lain, inartificial, untutored, unsophisticated, ingenu, unaffected, naive; sincere, frank; open, open as day; candid, ingenuous, guileless; unsuspicious, honest; innocent; Arcadian; undesigning, straightforward, unreserved, aboveboard; simple-minded, single-minded; frank-hearted, open-hearted, single-hearted, simple-hearted.

Fool

Child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop.

Good Man

Model, paragon; (perfection); good example; hero, heroine, demigod, seraph, angel; innocent; saint; (piety); benefactor; philanthropist; Aristides; noble liver, pattern.

Inexpedience

Adjective: harmless, hurtless; unobnoxious, innocuous, innocent, inoffensive.

Innocence

Verb: be innocent; adj; nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa.

Innocent, lamb, dove.

Harmless; inoffensive, innoxious, innocuous; dove-like, lamb-like; pure, harmless as doves; innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn; "more sinned against than sinning".

Adjective: innocent, not guilty; unguilty; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled; unhardened, Saturnian; Arcadian; (artless).

Probity

Innocent; pure, stainless; unstained, untarnished, unsullied, untainted, unperjured; uncorrupt, uncorrupted; undefiled, undepraved, undebauched; integer vitae scelerisque purus; justus et tenax propositi.

Salubrity

Innoxious, innocuous, innocent; harmless, uninjurious, uninfectious.

Virtue

Adjective: virtuous, good; innocent; meritorious, deserving, worthy, desertful, correct; dutiful, duteous; moral; right, righteous, right-minded; well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praiseworthy; above all praise, beyond all praise; excellent, admirable; sterling, pure, noble; whole-souled.

Crosswords: Innocent

Catalan (guiltless, innocent), French (clear, guiltless, harmless, honest, innocent, lamblike, not guilty, starry eyed).

Since I am innocent of this crime, I find it decidedly inconvenient that the gun was never found (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Millions of innocent people would be killed (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

We're talking about whether any independent contractors working on the uncompleted death star were innocent victims when the rebels destroyed it. (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

Why? Why the innocent, punished (Alien³; writing credit: Larry Ferguson, David Giler, and Walter Hill.)

He comes on with his big innocent farmboy routine, but I could see through that in a Peloponnesian minute (Hercules; writing credit: Ron Clements; Barry Johnson)

Because I am an innocent man (An Innocent Man; performing artist: Billy Joel)

Uhh, yeah, guilty until proven innocent huh (Guilty Until Proven Innocent; performing artist: Jay-Z)

Teaching a class full of innocent children (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson)

So very innocent (Last Night; performing artist: Az Yet)

I'm not that innocent (Oops!... I Did It Again; performing artist: Britney Spears)

Born Innocent (1974)

The Innocent Door (1973)

Innocent Bystanders (1972)

Seduction of the Innocent (1961)

The Innocent Party (1959)

Guilty Until Proven Innocent (performing artist: Jay-Z)

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Books

• I Is for Innocent (reference)

• Not So Innocent (reference)

• Presumed Innocent (reference)

• The Innocent (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Innocent Blood (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Reformed Innocent (reference)

• The Innocent Years (reference)

• The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The two poor innocent dears had allowed themselves a single indiscretion. Credit: Library of Congress.

Summer pastimes. The innocent bystanders --. Credit: Library of Congress.

Innocent bystander takes the rap. Credit: Library of Congress.

Statues and sculpture over the door of the gallery of House chamber, U.S. Capitol. Innocent the Third medallion I. Credit: Library of Congress.

-- the U.S. Government continues, methodically, to murder thousands of innocent Vietnamese -- how much longer can the American people accept this horror?. Credit: Library of Congress.

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In the first place we have granted to God, and by this our present charter confirmed for us and our heirs forever that the English Church shall be free, and shall have her rights entire, and her liberties inviolate; and we will that it be thus observed; which is apparent from this that the freedom of elections, which is reckoned most important and very essential to the English Church, we, of our pure and unconstrained will, did grant, and did by our charter confirm and did obtain the ratification of the same from our lord, Pope Innocent III, before the quarrel arose between us and our barons: and this we will observe, and our will is that it be observed in good faith by our heirs forever. (reference)

For in the state of nature, to omit the liberty he has of innocent delights, a man has two powers. (Second Treatise of Government)

Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. (reference)

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Emma could look perfectly unconscious and innocent, and answer in a manner that appropriated nothing

The bishop commonly listened in silence to these innocent and pardonable maternal displays

He was listening with pain of spirit to the overtone of weariness behind their frail fresh innocent voices

So just is God to right the innocent.

I am here obliged to vindicate the reputation of an excellent lady, who was an innocent sufferer upon my account

There was never yet such a storm but it was Aeolian music to a healthy and innocent ear.

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Health

Innocent groups of people were blamed for spreading plague and were persecuted by the panicked masses. (references)

Children

Iraq

In contrast mortality rates for children under 5 years old in the Kurdish-controlled north dropped in the period between 1994 and 1999. The Special Rapporteur criticized the Government for "letting innocent people suffer while [it] maneuvered to get sanctions lifted." Had the Government not waited 5 years to adopt the oil-for-food program in 1996, he stated in October 1999, "millions of innocent people would have avoided serious and prolonged suffering." For the 8th, the Government held 3-week training courses in weapons use, hand-to-hand fighting, rappelling from helicopters, and infantry tactics for children between 10 and 15 years of age. (references)

Civil Liberties

Zimbabwe

At least 12 persons, including one British journalist and innocent bystanders, were injured seriously. (references)

Uganda

In 2000 police in Rukungiri district arrested Innocent Bitungwabariho, a leader of the Jesus Christ the King of Salvation church. (references)

Economic History

Colombia

In addition to numerous attacks on military and police installations, the FARC killed at least 20 innocent civilians, including women and children; was responsible for four car bombings, and attacked Colombia's infrastructure, including water supply, energy pylons, an oil pipeline, and bridges. (references)

Human Rights

Japan

A defendant is presumed innocent. (references)

Kyrgyz Republic

The prisoner later was proven to be innocent. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

During the year, government bombings continued, often killing or injuring innocent civilians and destroying homes, schools, and hospitals. (references)

Women

Saudi Arabia

Shari'a prohibits abuse and violence against all innocent persons, including women. (references)

Pakistan

The Commission charged that the laws on adultery and rape have been subject to widespread misuse, with 95 percent of the women accused of adultery being found innocent either in the court of first instance or on appeal. (references)

Worker Rights

Mali

In August the Government introduced travel passes for children to try to prevent their being taken abroad to work illegally; however, the measures have been criticized for leading to the arrest of innocent travelers. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To be innocent

To be innocent

To be innocent

To be innocent

Expressions using "innocent": as innocent as the child unborn ♦ be innocent ♦ declare smb. innocent ♦ innocent as the babe unborn ♦ innocent III ♦ innocent of ♦ innocent of clothes ♦ innocent of reason ♦ Innocent party ♦ innocent sport ♦ Innocent tumor ♦ pronounce innocent. Additional references.

Beginning with "innocent": innocent-looking, innocent-seeming, innocent-sounding.

Ending with "innocent": all-innocent, fake-innocent, injured-innocent, mad-innocent, not-quite-so-innocent, seeming-innocent, semi-innocent.

Afrikaans

onskuldig (guiltless). (various references)

Albanian

i patëkeq (naïve), i pastër (absolute, chaste, childlike, clean, clean-handed, cleanly, clear, dapper, fair, neat, net, new, orderly, potty-trained, pure, refined, simon-pure, snug, spotless, sterling, tidy, trig, unadulterated, unblended, unimpeachable, unwritten, virgin, virginal, well groomed, white), i pafajshëm (blameless, clear, guiltless, harmless, not implicated), i pafaj, i padjallëzuar (artless, guileless, naïve, sincere), i padëmshëm (harmless, innocuous, innoxious, inoffensive, safe, scatheless), i dëlirë (candid, chaste, clean, fair, Frank, pure), i çiltër (artless, candid, direct, downright, forthright, genuine, guileless, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, hearty, open, open-hearted, plain, plain spoken, simple-hearted, sincere, straight, straightforward, truthful, unaffected, unsophisticated, wholehearted), teveqel (dolt, dull, dummy, fool, foolish, imbecile, noodle, simpleton, zany, zombie), njeri i padjallëzuar, leshko (coot, dodo, dupe, gander, goon, goose, greener, greenhorn, gudgeon, gullibility, gullible, loon, lummox, mooncalf, muggins, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, sap, sap-head, Sawney, simp, simpleton, tom-noddy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غير مؤذ (inoffensive, safe, white), ‏ساذج (artless, credulous, drip, gaga, gimp, green, guileless, gullible, honest, ingenuous, mug, naive, ninny, oafish, pastoral, patsy, platitudinous, primitive, provincial, silly, simple, unsophisticated, untutored, unworldly), ‏طاهر (chaste, clean, clear, immaculate, inviolate, pure, saintly, spotless, unstained, virgin, virtuous, white), ‏خال من سوء, ‏جاهل (artless, benighted, blockhead, ignorant, illiterate, nescient, primitive, raw, rude, simple, unaware, unlettered, untaught), ‏بسيط (attic, chaste, crude, down to earth, elementary, homely, honest, low-browed, lowly, mere, modest, naive, natural, pastoral, petty, plain, primitive, provincial, rustic, silly, simple, simple minded, sparing, straightforward, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unvarnished, with distortion), ‏برئ (angelic, artless, blameless, clear, guileless, guiltless, harmless, honest, inculpable, ingenuous, naive, pure, simple, starry eyed, white). (various references)

Bulgarian 

чист (absolute, chaste, clean, cleanly, clear, crisp, crystal, downright, fair, fine, fresh, heavenly, immaculate, incorrupt, lucid, mere, native, natty, neat, net, orderly, oriental, pellucid, pristine, pure, rank, sanitary, self, sheer, simon-pure, soilless, solid, stainless, sterling, straight, sublime, sweet, taintless, trim, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblemished, unmixed, unpolluted, unsophisticated, unspotted, unstained, virgin, virginal, virtuous, white, white-handed), който е лишен от, който е без, невиновен (clean-handed), невинен младенец, невинен (artless, blameless, clean-handed, guileless, guiltless, irreproachable, sinless, unblamable, unoffending, unsophisticated, virginal, white, white-handed, wide-eyed), малоумен (barmy, cretinous, deficient, feebleminded, half-witted, imbecile, mooncalf, oafish, simple, soft-headed, soft-witted, witless), безгрешен (saintly, sinless), безвреден (anodyne, harmless, innocuous, innoxious, unoffending), простодушен (ingenuous, simple, unartful, undesigning, unsophisticated), праведен (just, pious, righteous, simon-pure), позволен (allowed, legal, licit, permissible, permited), доброкачествен (benign, good, laudable). (various references)

Catalan

innocent (guiltless). (various references)

Chinese 

無辜 (innocence), 无辜, 天真 (artless, naive). (various references)

Czech

nevinný (all right, blameless, dewy-eyed, guiltless, innocuous, not guilty, white), naivní (dewy-eyed, green, guileless, gullible, naïve, starry eyed), bezelstný (artless, dewy-eyed, guileless, ingenuous, naïve, simple minded, unworldly). (various references)

Danish

uskyldig (guiltless). (various references)

Dutch

onschuldig (benign, guiltless), onnozel (dull, guiltless, insignificant, minor, naïf, naïve, naif, stupid, trifling), onbedorven (fresh, guiltless, recent). (various references)

Esperanto

senkulpa (guiltless). (various references)

Faeroese

sakleysur (guiltless). (various references)

Farsi 

مقدس (Holy, Numinous, Sacred, Sacrosanct, Saint, Sanctimonious), معصوم (Immaculate), مبرا, ادم ساده (Goof), ادم بیگناه , بیگناه , بی تقصیر, بی ضرر (Innocuous, Inoffensive). (various references)

Finnish

viaton (harmless), syytön (free from guilt, guiltless, not guilty). (various references)

French

innocent (innocuous). (various references)

Frisian

sûnder euvelmoed (guileless, inoffensive), ûnskuldich (guiltless). (various references)

German

unschuldig (artless, blamelessly, guiltless, inculpable, innocently, pure, unawakened, virgin, virginal, without blame), harmlos (easy, guileless, guiltless, harmless, harmlessly, innocuous, inoffensive, mild, nonviscous, safe, slight, unoffending, unoffendingly, unsuspicious), arglos (guileless, inoffensive, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspectingly, unsuspicious, unsuspiciously). (various references)

Greek 

άκακοσ (harmless, inoffensive, unoffending), άβγαλτοσ, αγνόσ (chaste, immaculate, pure, sterling, undiluted, unpolluted, vestal), αθώοσ (guiltless, not guilty), αθώος. (various references)

Hebrew 

תמים (blameless, complete, entire, guileless, honest, ingenuous, naןve, simple, unsophisticated, upright, whole), תם (artless, honest, ingenuous, naןve, simple), זך (clear, lucid, pure, spotless, transparent, virginal), חף מפשע (blameless, guiltless, inculpable), חף (pure), הולך תמים (gullible), צדיק (acquitted, just, pious, right, righteous, upright), נקי (clean, clear, free, pure), נבר (honest, pure). (various references)

Hungarian

naiv (blithe, green, guileless, gullible, ingenuous, naïve, naif, naive, pushover, untutored), jámbor ember, ártatlan (artless, blameless, guileless, guiltless, harmless, sinless, to put on an innocent air, white, white-handed). (various references)

Icelandic

saklaus (guiltless). (various references)

Indonesian

membersihsucikan (net, pure, purify), keadaan tak bersalah. (various references)

Italian

innocente (blameless, clean, crimeless, guiltless, not guilty, pure, sinless). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

頑是無い (helpless), 頑是ない (helpless), 罪の無い (guiltless), 罪のない (guiltless), 無辜 (blameless), 無実 , 無心 , 純 (chaste, pure), 淳良 (simple and kind), いかなる場合でも (anumber of, bad, bitch, come, complication, crucial moment, difficulties, forbidden, in any case, lovable, many, must not do, no entry, not good, now, paltry, pathetic, piddling, pitiful, quarrel, reserved, servile, stubborn Kochi man, sweet, tangle, that's too bad, timid, to come, to grow timid, to orgasm, trouble, unable to be honest, well, whatever the case may be, wrong), あっと言わせる (cherubic, errr, Excuse me..., floundering and almost drowning, say, to startle, well), イノシン酸 (changing one's image, creating a better image, efreet, emergency, Eve, evening, evening dress, event, ichthammol, Ichthyol, image change, image character, image maker, image research, image survey, imagination, imagineering, imitation, immediate, immigration, innocence, innovation, inosinic acid, one's image, ruining one's image, Yves Saint-Laurent), 初々しい (artless, unsophisticated), 初初しい (artless, unsophisticated). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がんぜない (helpless), ういういしい (artless, unsophisticated), つみのない (guiltless), いじらしい (lovable, pathetic, pitiful, sweet), あどけない (cherubic), むしん, むこ (blameless, son-in-law), むじつ, イノセント , じゅんりょう (gentle, genuine, good and obedient, meek, net weight, pure, purity, simple and kind), じゅん (10-day period, aim, apply correspondingly, associate, be proportionate to, chaste, conform to, correspond to, excellence, genius, level, order, pure, quasi, quasi-, rule, semi, semi-, standard, turn). (various references)

Korean 

결백한 (Blameless). (various references)

Manx

oney (artless, harmless, honest, innocuous, morally uncorrupted, simple, well-meant), neuloghtagh (blameless, faultless, impeccable, irreprehensible, sinless, unblamable), neufoiljagh (faultless, inoffensive, irreprehensible, unblamable), neuchyndagh (blameless, guiltless, irreproachable), mecaintagh, gyn loght (blameless, faultless, flawless, guiltless, impeccable, model, unexceptional). (various references)

Norwegian

uskyldig. (various references)

Papiamen

inosente (guiltless), inkulpabel (guiltless). (various references)

Pig Latin

innocentay.(various references)

Polish

niewinny (guiltless). (various references)

Portuguese

inocente (blameless, clear, guiltless, harmless, immaculate, ingenuous, inoffensive, lamblike, shirt-sleeve, sinless, taintless, unoffending, unsophisticated). (various references)

Romanian

inocent (clean, guileless, guiltless, harmless, ingenuous, sackless, unoffending, virgin), ignorant (benighted, cipher, dark, dunce, ignoramus, ignorant, illiterate, inexpert, know-nothing, nescient, rude, unknowing, unlearned), simplist (over-simple, simplistic), prunc (babe, baby, child), novice (apprentice, beginner, callow, colt, cub, entrant, fledgeling, greenhorn, intrant, neophyte, new, novice, probationer, recruit, tenderfoot, tiro, tyro, untried), nevinovat (blameless, chaste, childlike, harmless, immaculate, not guilty, pure, sackless, silly, simple, white), natural (careless, certainly, easy, genuine, home-bred, kind, lifelike, matter of course, native, natural, naturally, physical, primitive, real, reasonably, simple, undisguised, unsophisticated, unvarnished), gãgãuţã (booby, dupe, gander, ninny, nitwit, noddy, nut, rook, spoony, sucker), candid (ingenuous, sincere, virginal). (various references)

Russian 

невиновный (guiltless). (various references)

Scottish

neo-chiontach (a. innocent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nevinašce, nevin (blameless, childlike, clean-handed, guiltless, lily white, unblamable, undeserving, virgin), nedužan (guiltless, undeserving), koji nije kriv, bezazlen (artless, childish, guileless, harmless, ingenuous, laudable, naďve, simplehearted, simple-hearted, unoffending, unsuspecting). (various references)

Spanish

inocente (april fool, blameless, clean, guileless, guiltless, incautious, ingenuous, Lily, naïve, simple, simple-hearted), inculpable (guiltless). (various references)

Swedish

oskyldig (blameless, guiltless). (various references)

Thai

ผู้บริสุทธิ์ (babe in arms, babe in the woods), ซึ่งไร้เดียงสา. (various references)

Turkish

zararsız kimse, saftrik (ingenuous, rube), saf (absolute, all, artless, candid, clean, clear, country bumpkin, credulous, deceivable, dewy-eyed, distilled, dupe, elemental, elementary, entire, facile, fine, genuine, greenhorn, gudgeon, guileless, gull, gullible, harmless, homespun, honest, immaculate, ingenuous, juggins, mere, naïve, pigeon, pristine, pure, pure-minded, rank, raw, real, refined, simple, simple minded, simple simon, simple-hearted, sterling, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, uncontaminated, undiluted, unmixed, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, untutored, unworldly, witless), masum (blameless, clear, guiltless, harmless, immaculate, ingenuous, lamblike, sinless, wide-eyed), günahsız (impeccable, sinless), aptal (bird brained, birdbrain, booby, cretin, cuckoo, daft, Dotty, drag, dumb, dumb bell, dummy, dunce, fathead, fat-head, fat-headed, fatuous, feeble minded, fool, foolish, gaga, goofy, gormless, half wit, half-witted, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, inane, lummox, oafish, silly, simp, softhead, softy, stupid, thickheaded, tomfool, twerp, twit). (various references)

Turkmen 

яazyksyz, gьnдsiz (blameless), bigьnд. (various references)

Ukrainian

невинуватий (faultless), невинна людина, невинний (chaste, childlike, clean-handed, guiltless, harmless, pure, virginal, white), наївний (artless, babyish, naпve, unsophisticated), безневинне немовля, безневинний, простак (gaby, gawky, greener, josser, juggins, lummox, muggins, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, pigeon, prune, simp, simple, simpleton, softy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người vô tội, người không có tội đứa bé ngây thơ thằng ngốc. (various references)

Welsh

gwirion (silly), diniwed (harmless), dieuog (guiltless). (various references)

inculpatus, indemnis, innocens, innocente, innocentem, innocenter, innocentes, innocenti, innocentia, innocentis, innocentium, innocentum, innocuum, innocuus, insons insontis, insontem, pura, puram, puras, pure, purior, purissimam, purissimas, purissimi, purissimo, purissimum, puritatem, puro, purum, purus. (various references)

bilewit. (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "innocent": innocenter, innocentest, innocently, innocents. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Innocent" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ginneken, innercent, innocente, inocent, nocent. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: conine, intone, nocent, noetic, notice.

-3 letters: cento, conin, conte, ninon, niton, nonce, nonet, ontic, tenon, tonic, tonne.

-4 letters: cent, cine, cion, cite, coin, cone, coni, conn, cote, etic, icon, into, neon, nice, nine, nite, none, note, once, otic, tine, tone.

-5 letters: con, cot, eon, ice, inn, ion, net, nit, not, one, ten, tic, tie.

+1 letter: connivent, continent, innocents, nonethnic, noninsect.

+2 letters: connecting, connection, consenting, contemning, contending, contenting, contention, continence, continents, contingent, convenient, conventing, convention, innocenter, innocently, noncabinet, noncitizen, nongenetic, noninsects.

+3 letters: antinucleon, coinventing, confinement, connections, consignment, containment, contentions, continences, continental, continently, contingence, contingency, contingents, continuance, conventions, covenanting, enunciation, incongruent, inconscient, incontinent, innocentest, internuncio, noncabinets, noncitizens, nonelection, noninfected, nonmagnetic, nonphonetic, nonteaching.