From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Innocent \In"no*cent\, adjective [F. innocent, L. innocens, -entis; pref. in- not + nocens, p. pr. of nocere to harm, hurt. See {Noxious}.]
1. Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.
The spear Sung innocent, and spent its force in air. --Pope.
2. Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright.
To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb. --Shak.
I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. --Matt. xxvii. 4.
The aidless, innocent lady, his wished prey. --Milton.
3. Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged.
Innocent from the great transgression. --Ps. xix. 13.
4. Simple; artless; foolish. --Shak.
5. Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade.
6. Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation.
{Innocent party} (Law),a party who has not notice of a fact tainting a litigated transaction with illegality.
Syn: Harmless; innoxious; innoffensive; guiltless; spotless; immaculate; pure; unblamable; blameless; faultless; guileless; upright.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
1. An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin. --Shak.
2. An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot. --B. Jonson.
In Scotland a natural fool was called an innocent. --Sir W. Scott.
{Innocents' day} (Eccl.), Childermas day.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty" [syn: {guiltless}, {clean-handed}] [ant: {guilty}]
2: lacking intent or capacity to injure; "an innocent prank" [syn: {innocuous}]
3: free from sin [syn: {impeccant}, {sinless}]
4: 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" [syn: {ingenuous}]
5: used of things; lacking sense or awareness; "ignorant hope"; "fine innocent weather" [syn: {ignorant}]
noun
1: a person who lacks knowledge of evil [syn: {inexperienced person}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
252 Moby Thesaurus words for "innocent": above suspicion, angel, angelic, artless, awkward, babe, bairn, beginner, benign, blameless, blankminded, blotless, bluff, blunt, boob, born yesterday, budding, callow, candid, chaste, cherub, child, child of nature, childlike, chit, chump, cinch, clean, cleanly, clear, confiding, credulous, credulous person, cull, darling, dependent, depending, destitute, dewy, direct, dove, dovelike, dumb, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, empty, empty-headed, exemplary, fall guy, faultless, fish, fool, frank, gauche, gobe-mouches, green, greener, greenhorn, greeny, groping, growing, gudgeon, guileless, guiltless, gull, gullible, harmless, hick, honest, ignorant, immaculate, immature, impubic, in the clear, inane, incorrupt, inculpable, inexperienced, infant, ingenu, ingenue, ingenuous, innocuous, inoffensive, intact, irreproachable, juicy, kid, kitten, know-nothing, lamb, lambkin, lamblike, leadpipe cinch, legal, legitimate, licit, little bugger, little fellow, little guy, little innocent, little one, little tad, little tot, lout, mere child, minor, mite, monkey, naive, nescient, new-fledged, newborn babe, newcomer, nipper, noble savage, nonmalignant, nonpoisonous, nontoxic, nonvirulent, not guilty, novice, oaf, offenseless, offspring, open, openhearted, outspoken, patsy, peewee, pigeon, plain, plaything, prelapsarian, pristine, prize sap, pure, pure in heart, purehearted, pushover, raw, reliant, relying, reproachless, righteous, ripening, rube, safe, sans reproche, sap, saphead, sappy, schlemiel, sexually innocent, shaver, simple, simple soul, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single-hearted, single-minded, sinless, sitting duck, snowy, spotless, stainless, stooge, strange to, sucker, tad, taintless, tender, tentative, tot, toy, trustful, trusting, trusting soul, trusty, unacquainted, unadult, unaffected, unapprized, unartificial, unblamable, unblemished, unblotted, uncomprehending, unconversant, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undamaging, undefiled, underage, undeveloped, unenlightened, unfallen, unfamiliar, unfledged, unformed, unguarded, unhurtful, unilluminated, unimpeachable, uninformed, uninitiated, uninjurious, unintelligent, unknowing, unlapsed, unlicked, unmellowed, unobjectionable, unobnoxious, unoffending, unpolluted, unposted, unreserved, unripe, unschooled, unseasoned, unsoiled, unsophisticate, unsophisticated, unspotted, unstained, unstudied, unsullied, unsure, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untainted, untarnished, untouched by evil, unversed, unwary, unworldly, vacuous, vernal, victim, virginal, virtuous, void, wee tot, well-intentioned, white, with clean hands, without reproach, without suspicion, yokel
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