Meaning & Definition of Innocent in English

1. A person who lacks knowledge of evil

1. Free from evil or guilt

• "An innocent child"

• "The principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"

2. Lacking intent or capacity to injure

• "An innocent prank"

3. Free from sin

4. 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"

5. Not knowledgeable about something specified

• "American tourists wholly innocent of french"

• "A person unacquainted with our customs"

6. Completely wanting or lacking

• "Writing barren of insight"

• "Young recruits destitute of experience"

• "Innocent of literary merit"

• "The sentence was devoid of meaning"

7. (used of things) lacking sense or awareness

• "Fine innocent weather"