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- features:
- Word History
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition 1: |
When you have done nothing wrong, you are innocent.
She got the blame, but everyone knew that the girl was innocent.- antonyms:
- guilty
- similar words:
- clear
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| definition 2: |
When someone is innocent, they have no evil inside them and they do not know evil in other people either.
They were such innocent people that they could not imagine that they were being cheated.- synonyms:
- pure
- antonyms:
- corrupt
- similar words:
- clean, moral
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| definition 3: |
When something is innocent, it causes no harm.
They thought it was going to be an innocent joke, but someone got hurt.- similar words:
- safe
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| derivation: |
innocently (adv.) |
Innocent comes from a Latin word that means "not capable of doing harm."