innocent

  • (noun): One who is innocent, especially a young child.
  • (noun): A harmless simple-minded person; an idiot.
  • (adjective): Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
  • (adjective): Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
  • (adjective): Naive; artless.
  • (adjective): (obsolete except medicine) Not harmful; innocuous; harmless; benign.
  • (adjective): (with of) Having no knowledge (of something).
  • (adjective): (with of) Lacking (something).
  • (adjective): Lawful; permitted.
  • (adjective): Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.
  • The slaughter of the innocents was a significant event in the New Testament.
  • an innocent trade
  • innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation