innocent

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   (used of things) lacking sense or awareness

   fine innocent weather

2. 2
   adj

   lacking intent or capacity to injure

   an innocent prank

3. 3
   adj

   free from evil or guilt

   an innocent child

4. 4
   adj

   lacking in sophistication or worldliness

   a child's innocent stare

5. 5
   adj

   Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.

   I'm sure there's an innocent explanation for all this.

6. 6
   adj

   Without wrongful intent; accidental or in good faith.

   He didn't mean anything by it; it was an innocent mistake.

7. 7
   adj

   Naive; artless.

   I can find out no rhyme to / 'lady' but 'baby' – an innocent rhyme;

8. 8
   adj

   Not harmful; innocuous; harmless; benign.

   The spear / Sung innocent, and spent its force in air.

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.