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innocent

adjective noun

(used of things) lacking sense or awareness

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Word Facts

Word length
8
Starts with
I
Ends with
T
Contains
NN
Scrabble score
10
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

How it sounds

Pronunciation

ˈɪnəsn̩t

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adjective

  1. (used of things) lacking sense or awareness

    “fine innocent weather”

adjective

  1. completely wanting or lacking

    “writing barren of insight”

adjective

  1. lacking intent or capacity to injure

    “an innocent prank”

adjective

  1. not knowledgeable about something specified

    “American tourists wholly innocent of French”

adjective

  1. free from evil or guilt

    “an innocent child”

adjective

  1. lacking in sophistication or worldliness

    “a child's innocent stare”

adjective

  1. free from sin

noun

  1. a person who lacks knowledge of evil

In context

Example Sentences

fine innocent weather
writing barren of insight
young recruits destitute of experience
innocent of literary merit
the sentence was devoid of meaning
an innocent prank
American tourists wholly innocent of French
a person unacquainted with our customs
an innocent child
the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty
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

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