innocent : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: innocent	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for innocent
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
innocent adj free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty" Synonym(s): innocent, guiltless, clean-handed Antonym(s): guilty lacking intent or capacity to injure; "an innocent prank" Synonym(s): innocent, innocuous free from sin Synonym(s): impeccant, innocent, sinless 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" Synonym(s): innocent, ingenuous not knowledgeable about something specified; "American tourists wholly innocent of French"; "a person unacquainted with our customs" Synonym(s): innocent(p), unacquainted(p) completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" Synonym(s): barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent (used of things) lacking sense or awareness; "fine innocent weather" n a person who lacks knowledge of evil [syn: innocent, inexperienced person]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Innocent \In"nocent\, a. [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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Innocent \In"nocent\, n. 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.