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

1. adjective. Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.
2. adjective. Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright.
3. adjective. Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged.
4. adjective. Simple; artless; foolish.
5. adjective. Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade.
6. adjective. Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation.
7. noun. An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin.
8. noun. An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot.
9. noun. a person who lacks knowledge of evil
10. adjective. (used of things) lacking sense or awareness

    "fine innocent weather"

11. adjective. completely wanting or lacking

    "writing barren of insight"

    "young recruits destitute of experience"

    Synonyms: barren, destitute, devoid, free

12. adjective. lacking intent or capacity to injure

    "an innocent prank"

    Synonyms: innocuous

13. adjective. not knowledgeable about something specified

    "American tourists wholly innocent of French"

    "a person unacquainted with our customs"

    Synonyms: unacquainted

14. adjective. free from evil or guilt

    "an innocent child"

    "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"

    Synonyms: guiltless

15. 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"

    Synonyms: ingenuous

16. adjective. free from sin

    Synonyms: impeccant, sinless

Synonyms

barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocuous, unacquainted, guiltless, ingenuous, impeccant, sinless

Common word forms

innocents, innocenter, innocently, innocentest, innocentness

Words from these letters

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