innocent

Pronunciation: /ˈɪnəsənt/

The English word “innocent” has 10 meanings listed here.

adjective

Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
Without wrongful intent; accidental or in good faith.
Naive; artless.
Not harmful; innocuous; harmless; benign.
Lacking (something), or knowledge of it.
Lawful; permitted.
Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.

noun

One who is innocent, especially a young child.
A harmless simple-minded person; an idiot.

Etymology

From Middle English innocent, from Old French innocent, inocent, borrowed from Latin innocēns (“harmless, inoffensive”), from in- (“not”) + nocēns, present participle of noceō (“to hurt”). By surface analysis, in- (“not”) + nocent (“harmful; guilty”). Displaced native Old English unsċyldiġ.

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