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