Dictionary Entry
innocent
innocent is a 8-letter English word with 16 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.
- 2adjective
Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright.
- 3adjective
Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged.
- 4adjective
Simple; artless; foolish.
- 5adjective
Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade.
- 6adjective
Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation.
- 7noun
An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin.
- 8noun
An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot.
- 9noun
a person who lacks knowledge of evil
- 10adjective
(used of things) lacking sense or awareness
"fine innocent weather"
- 11adjective
completely wanting or lacking
"writing barren of insight"
"young recruits destitute of experience"
- 12adjective
lacking intent or capacity to injure
"an innocent prank"
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- 13adjective
not knowledgeable about something specified
"American tourists wholly innocent of French"
"a person unacquainted with our customs"
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- 14adjective
free from evil or guilt
"an innocent child"
"the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"
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- 15adjective
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"
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- 16adjective
free from sin
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