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innocent

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innocent in WordNet English dictionary

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