Another word for innocent
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Adjective
Free from evil and corruption
- Relating to, characteristic of, or befitting a virgin.
- Untouched or unsullied; fresh:
- Inexperienced:
- Not tainted; free of contamination; pure.
- Not dyed or discolored.
- Pure, pristine, clean, immaculate, unadulterated.
- Free from stain, blemish, evil or corruption; immaculate; uncorrupted.
- Lacking blemishes or faults:
- without sin; innocent
- Having a homogeneous or uniform composition; not mixed:
- Free of dirt, pollutants, infectious agents, or other unwanted elements:
- Containing nothing inappropriate or extraneous:
- White as a lily.
- Beyond reproach; blameless:
- Consisting of white people only or excluding nonwhite people.
- Free from dirt, stain, or impurities; unsoiled:
- Free from foreign matter or pollution; unadulterated:
- Not infected:
- of an angel or the angels; spiritual; heavenly
- like an angel in beauty, goodness, innocence, etc.
Idioms:Free from guilt or blame
- Free from dirt, stain, or impurities; unsoiled:
- Free from foreign matter or pollution; unadulterated:
- Not infected:
- Alternative spelling of unblameable.
- White as a lily.
- Beyond reproach; blameless:
- Consisting of white people only or excluding nonwhite people.
- Perfect or blameless in every respect; faultless:
- Not causing or incapable of causing harm.
- Not intended to harm or offend; inoffensive.
- Of or relating to an error in a trial that would not change the outcome and therefore does not call for a reversal of the case on appeal.
- Free of guilt; innocent.
- Being without fault.
- Free of blame or guilt; innocent.
Idioms:See also:Within, allowed by, or sanctioned by the law
- Legitimate.
- Permitted by law; legal.
- Being in compliance with the law; lawful:
- Being in accordance with established or accepted rules and standards:
- Valid or justifiable:
- Of, relating to, or concerned with law:
- Established or recognized by law:
- Authorized by law:
- Being within the law; allowed by law:
- Established, sanctioned, or recognized by the law:
- Obeying the law; law-abiding.
See also:Devoid of hurtful qualities
- Giving no offense; unobjectionable.
- Causing no harm; harmless.
- Having no adverse effect; harmless.
- Not likely to offend or provoke to strong emotion; insipid.
- Causing no hurt; harmless.
- Having no hurt; unhurt.
- Not causing or incapable of causing harm.
- Not intended to harm or offend; inoffensive.
- Of or relating to an error in a trial that would not change the outcome and therefore does not call for a reversal of the case on appeal.
See also:Free from guile, cunning, or deceit
- Having or showing little understanding of the ways of the world; naive or impractical:
- Not of this world; spiritual or supernatural:
- Suggestive of another world, as in being bizarre or eerie:
- Not contrived for effect; natural:
- Not gained by study or instruction:
- Not sophisticated.
- Not changed, modified, or affected.
- Marked by lack of affectation; unpretentious or sincere.
- Having few parts or features; not complicated or elaborate:
- Easy to understand, do, or carry out:
- Having or composed of only one thing, element, or part:
- Present in or produced by nature:
- Of, relating to, or concerning nature:
- Conforming to the usual or ordinary course of nature:
- Simple and guileless; artless:
- Unsuspecting or credulous:
- Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment:
- Lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness; innocent or naive:
- Straightforward or frank; candid:
- Free of guile; artless.
- Having or displaying no guile or deceit; honest or sincere:
- Free of artificiality; natural:
- Lacking art, knowledge, or skill; uncultured and ignorant.
See also:Not aware or informed
- Not knowing; unaware:
- Not intended; unintentional:
- Not knowing; unaware.
- Not having, showing, or making use of information; not informed:
- Not being acquainted; not conversant:
- Not within one's knowledge; strange:
- Not enlightened; ignorant in general or of some particular fact.
- Lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception; not conscious.
- Temporarily lacking consciousness.
- Occurring in the absence of conscious awareness or thought:
- Not aware or cognizant.
- Unawares.
- Not familiar or acquainted with another.
- Not informed or knowledgeable:
- Lacking conscious awareness; unmindful:
- Lacking all memory; forgetful.
- Lacking education or knowledge.
- Showing or arising from a lack of education or knowledge:
- Unaware or uninformed:
Idioms:See also:Not having a desirable element
- Absent; lacking:
- Not measuring up to standards or expectations:
- Without; missing:
- Containing no matter; empty.
- Not occupied; unfilled.
- Completely lacking; devoid:
- Present participle of lack.
- Having nothing inside or on the surface; holding or containing nothing:
- Having no elements or members; null:
- Having no occupants; not being used:
- Completely lacking; destitute or empty:
- Lacking resources or the means of subsistence; completely impoverished.
- Utterly lacking; devoid:
- Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of female animals.
- Not producing or incapable of producing offspring. Used of women.
- Not producing or incapable of producing fruit:
Idioms:See also:
Noun
A pure, uncorrupted person
- A person who has not experienced sexual intercourse.
- A female virgin. Used chiefly in historical contexts.
- The Virgin Mary.
- A young sheep, especially one that is not yet weaned.
- The flesh of a young sheep used as meat.
- Lambskin.
- A typically benevolent celestial being that acts as an intermediary between heaven and earth, especially in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Zoroastrianism.
- A representation of such a being, especially in Christianity, conventionally in the image of a human figure with a halo and wings.
- The last of the nine orders of angels in medieval angelology. From the highest to the lowest in rank, the orders are: seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, powers, principalities, archangels, and angels.
A guileless, unsophisticated person
- Simple and guileless; artless:
- Unsuspecting or credulous:
- Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment:
- A person between birth and puberty.
- A person who has not attained maturity or the age of legal majority.
- An unborn infant; a fetus.
- A baby; an infant.
- An innocent or naive person.
- A young woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
Idioms:See also:A young person between birth and puberty
- A child.
- A young goat.
- One of the young of certain similar animals.
- The flesh of a young goat.
- A young person; a child or youth.
- A young animal.
- A small child.
- A small amount, as of liquor.
- A young child.
- Not fully grown or developed; young.
- Of or characteristic of a young animal that has not reached sexual maturity:
- Characteristic of, intended for, or appropriate for children or young people:
- A person between birth and puberty.
- A person who has not attained maturity or the age of legal majority.
- An unborn infant; a fetus.
- A small protuberance on a stem or branch, sometimes enclosed in protective scales and containing an undeveloped leaf, flower, or leafy shoot.
- The stage or condition of having buds:
- An asexual reproductive structure, as in yeast or a hydra, that consists of an outgrowth capable of developing into a new individual.
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Another word for innocent
Modifier
Not guilty
- Free from dirt, stain, or impurities; unsoiled:
- Free from foreign matter or pollution; unadulterated:
- Not infected:
- Marked by or displaying integrity; upright:
- Not deceptive or fraudulent; genuine:
- Equitable; fair:
- Feeling or showing no interest or involvement; unconcerned:
- Being without fault.
- Having no flaws; perfect.
- Not capable of sinning or not liable to sin.
- Free of guilt; blameless.
- Free of blame or guilt; innocent.
- Free of guilt; innocent.
Antonyms:Without guile
- Free of guile; artless.
- New to one's experience; not encountered before:
- Unusual or different:
- Recently made, produced, or harvested; not stale or spoiled:
- Lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness; innocent or naive:
- Straightforward or frank; candid:
- Affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed.
- Affording unobstructed passage or view:
- Having no protecting or concealing cover:
Inexperienced
- The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between yellow and blue, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 490 to 570 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue is that of the emerald or somewhat less yellow than that of growing grass; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
- Something green in color.
- The branches and leaves of plants used for decoration.
- Uncooked:
- Being in a natural condition; not processed or refined:
- Not finished, covered, or coated:
- Characterized by youth; young:
- Typical of or suggesting youth:
- In an early stage of development; new:
Morally pure
- Perfectly clean:
- Free from moral fault or taint; untarnished and virtuous:
- of an angel or the angels; spiritual; heavenly
- like an angel in beauty, goodness, innocence, etc.
- Of or concerned with the judgment of right or wrong of human action and character:
- Teaching or exhibiting goodness or correctness of character and behavior:
- Conforming to standards of what is right or just in behavior; virtuous:
- Free of corruption or immorality.
- Not decayed; unspoiled.
- Free of errors or faults.
- Having no spots.
- Morally upright.
- Without stain or blemish:
- Resistant to stain or corrosion:
- Made of a stainless material:
- Not dyed or discolored.
- Pure, pristine, clean, immaculate, unadulterated.
- Perfect or blameless in every respect; faultless:
- Morally upright; without guilt or sin:
- In accordance with virtue or morality:
- Righteous people considered as a group.
- Having no flaws; perfect.
- Not capable of sinning or not liable to sin.
- Impeccably clean; spotless:
- Free from sin.
- Free from fault or error:
- Relating to, characteristic of, or befitting a virgin.
- Untouched or unsullied; fresh:
- Inexperienced:
- Not having experienced sexual intercourse; virginal.
- Abstaining from sexual relations that are not sanctioned by certain religious laws or moral principles.
- Abstaining from sexual relations; celibate.
- Having or showing virtue, especially moral excellence:
- Chaste:
- Free from dirt, stain, or impurities; unsoiled:
- Free from foreign matter or pollution; unadulterated:
- Not infected:
- Difficult or impossible to impeach:
- Beyond reproach; blameless:
- Beyond doubt; unquestionable:
- Being in a vertical position or direction:
- Erect in posture or carriage:
- Adhering strictly to moral principles; righteous.
- Conducive to or indicative of good health or well-being; salutary:
- Conducive to or promoting social or moral well-being, especially in reflecting conventional moral values:
- Perfectly clean:
- Free from flaw or imperfection; impeccable:
- Free from stain, blemish, evil or corruption; immaculate; uncorrupted.
- Having a homogeneous or uniform composition; not mixed:
- Free of dirt, pollutants, infectious agents, or other unwanted elements:
- Containing nothing inappropriate or extraneous:
- Lacking blemishes or faults:
- without sin; innocent
Harmless
- Having little or no detrimental effect; harmless:
- Of no danger to health; not malignant or disease-causing:
- Tending to exert a beneficial influence; favorable:
- Free from danger or injury; undamaged or unhurt:
- Not exposed to the threat of danger or harm:
- Usable in specified conditions without being damaged. Often used in combination:
- Giving no offense; unobjectionable.
- Causing no harm; harmless.
- Having no adverse effect; harmless.
- Not likely to offend or provoke to strong emotion; insipid.
See also:
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