innocent

About 13.52 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.

   I'm sure there's an innocent explanation for all this.

2. adjective Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
3. adjective Without wrongful intent; accidental or in good faith.

   He didn't mean anything by it; it was an innocent mistake.

4. adjective Naive; artless.
5. adjective Not harmful; innocuous; harmless; benign.
6. adjective Lacking (something), or knowledge of it.
7. adjective Lawful; permitted.

   an innocent trade

8. adjective Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.

   innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation

Similar words

sinless blameless harmless innocuous clean-handed impeccant guiltless irreproachable inculpable unimpeachable

Often followed by

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Word family

Innocent innocenter innocentest innocently innocents