Thesaurus:innocent
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Sense: free from guilt, sin, or immorality
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- blameless
- clean [⇒ thesaurus]
- clean-handed (chiefly British)
- clean as a hound's tooth
- clean as a whistle
- clear (figurative)
- dovelike (figurative)
- guiltless
- innocent
- innocent as the babe unborn
- innocent as the child unborn
- irreprehensible
- nonblameworthy
- not guilty (nonstandard)
- offenseless
- pure [⇒ thesaurus]
- righteous
- sackless (British dialect, archaic)
- sinless
- unblameable
- unblameworthy
- uncalculating
- unguilty (archaic)
Antonyms
[edit]- blameworthy
- guilty [⇒ thesaurus]
- nocent (obsolete)
Various
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “946. innocence” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “innocent” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.