¦ adjective
1. not guilty of a crime or offence.
not responsible or directly involved: an innocent bystander.
2. free from moral wrong; not corrupted.
3. not intended to cause offence; harmless.
4. (innocent of) without experience or knowledge of: a man innocent of war's cruelties.
without; lacking.
¦ noun an innocent person.
Derivatives
innocence noun
innocency noun (archaic).
innocently adverb
Origin
ME: from OFr., or from L. innocent- 'not harming', from in- 'not' + nocere 'to hurt'.