A person who lacks knowledge of evil.

synonym: inexperienced person.

Roget 948: good man, honest man, worthy.    good woman, perfect lady, Madonna.    model, paragon etc. (perfection) 650; good example; hero, heroine, demigod, seraph, angel; innocent etc. 946; saint etc. (piety) 987; benefactor etc. 912; philanthropist etc. 910; Aristides^†; noble liver^†, pattern.    brick [Slang], trump [Slang], gem, jewel, good fellow, prince, diamond in the rough, rough diamond, ugly duckling^†.    salt of the earth; one in ten thousand; one in a million; a gentleman and a scholar; pillar of society, pillar of the community, a man among men.    ... show more

Roget 946: innocence; guiltlessness etc. adj.; incorruption, impeccability.    clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti [Lat.] [Vergil]. innocent, lamb, dove.    ... show more

Roget 501: fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling^†, dizzard^†, donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer^†; chowderhead^†, chucklehead^†; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby^†, hoddy-doddy^†, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy^†, owl; goose, goosecap^†; imbecile; gaby^†; radoteur^†, nincompoop, badaud^†, zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais^†.    child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop.    oaf, lout, loon, lown^†, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps^†, tony.    bull head, dunderhead, addlehead^†, blockhead, dullhead^†, loggerhead, jolthead^†, jolterhead^†, beetlehead^†, beetlebrain, grosshead^†, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead^†; numbskull, thickskull^†; lackbrain^†, shallowbrain^†; dimwit, halfwit, lackwit^†; dunderpate^†; lunkhead sawney [U.S.], gowk^†; clod, clod-hopper; clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate; bull calf; gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube [U.S.]; men of Boeotia, wise men of Gotham.    un sot a triple etage [Fr.], sot; jobbernowl^†, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche^†.    dotard, driveler; old fogey, old woman, crock; crone, grandmother; cotquean^†, henhussy^†.    incompetent (insanity) 503.    greenhorn etc. (dupe) 547; dunce etc. (ignoramus) 493; lubber etc. (bungler) 701; madman etc. 504.    one who will not set the Thames on fire; one who did not invent gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre [Fr.]; no conjuror.    ... show more

Dutch: ingénue

Free from evil or guilt:
— An innocent child.
— The principle that one is innocent until proved guilty.

synonyms: clean-handed, guiltless.

Roget 946: innocent, not guilty; unguilty^†; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia [Lat.]; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled etc. 939; unhardened^†, Saturnian; Arcadian etc. (artless) 703^†.    inculpable, unculpable^†; unblamed, unblamable^†; blameless, unfallen^†, inerrable^†, above suspicion; irreproachable, irreprovable^†, irreprehensible^†; unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable; salvable^†; venial etc. 937.    harmless; inoffensive, innoxious^†, innocuous; dove-like, lamb-like; pure, harmless as doves; innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn; more sinned against than sinning" [Lear]. virtuous etc. 944; unreproved^†, unimpeached, unreproached^†.    ... show more

Roget 944: virtuous, good; innocent etc. 946; meritorious, deserving, worthy, desertful^†, correct; dutiful, duteous; moral; right, righteous, right-minded; well-intentioned, creditable, laudable, commendable, praiseworthy; above all praise, beyond all praise; excellent, admirable; sterling, pure, noble; whole-souled^†.    exemplary; matchless, peerless; saintly, saint-like; heaven-born, angelic, seraphic, godlike.    ... show more

Roget 939: upright; honest, honest as daylight; veracious etc. 543; virtuous etc. 944; honorable; fair, right, just, equitable, impartial, evenhanded, square; fair and aboveboard, open and aboveboard; white [U.S.].    constant, constant as the northern star; faithful, loyal, staunch; true, true blue, true to one's colors, true to the core, true as the needle to the pole; marble-constant" [Antony and Cleopatra]; true-hearted, trusty, trustworthy; as good as one's word, to be depended on, incorruptible.    straightforward etc. (ingenuous) 703; frank, candid, open-hearted.    conscientious, tender-conscienced, right-minded; high-principled, high-minded; scrupulous, religious, strict; nice, punctilious, correct, punctual; respectable, reputable; gentlemanlike^†.    inviolable, inviolate; unviolated^†, unbroken, unbetrayed; unbought, unbribed^†.    innocent etc. 946; pure, stainless; unstained, untarnished, unsullied, untainted, unperjured^†; uncorrupt, uncorrupted; undefiled, undepraved^†, undebauched^†; integer vitae scelerisque purus [Lat.] [Horace]; justus et tenax propositi [Lat.] [Horace]. chivalrous, jealous of honor, sans peur et sans reproche [Fr.]; high-spirited.    supramundane^†, unworldly, other-worldly, overscrupulous^†.    ... show more

Lacking intent or capacity to injure:
— An innocent prank.

synonym: innocuous.

Roget 648: harmless, hurtless^†; unobnoxious^†, innocuous, innocent, inoffensive.    beneficial, valuable, of value; serviceable etc. (useful) 644; advantageous, edifying, profitable; salutary etc. (healthful) 656.    favorable; propitious etc. (hope-giving) 858; fair.    good, good as gold; excellent; better; superior etc. 33; above par; nice, fine; genuine etc. (true) 494.    best, choice, select, picked, elect, recherche, rare, priceless; unparagoned^†, unparalleled etc. (supreme) 33; superlatively etc. 33; good; bully [Slang], crackajack [Slang], giltedged; superfine, superexcellent^†; of the first water; first-rate, first-class; high-wrought, exquisite, very best, crack, prime, tiptop, capital, cardinal; standard etc. (perfect) 650; inimitable.    admirable, estimable; praiseworthy etc. (approve) 931; pleasing etc. 829; couleur de rose [Fr.], precious, of great price; costly etc. (dear) 814; worth its weight in gold, worth a Jew's eye; priceless, invaluable, inestimable, precious as the apple of the eye.    tolerable etc. (not very good) 651; up to the mark, unexceptionable, unobjectionable; satisfactory, tidy.    in good condition, in fair condition; fresh; sound etc. (perfect) 650.    ... show more

Roget 656: salubrious, salutary, salutiferous^†; wholesome; healthy, healthful; sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating, good for, nutritious; hygeian^†, hygienic.    innoxious^†, innocuous, innocent; harmless, uninjurious, uninfectious.    sanative etc. (remedial) 662; restorative etc. (reinstate) 660; useful etc. 644.    ... show more

Free from sin.

synonyms: impeccant, sinless.

Lacking in sophistication or worldliness:
— A child's innocent stare.

synonym: ingenuous.

Roget 703: artless, natural, pure, native, confiding, simple, lain, inartificial^†, untutored, unsophisticated, ingenu^†, unaffected, naive; sincere, frank; open, open as day; candid, ingenuous, guileless; unsuspicious, honest etc. 939; innocent etc. 946; Arcadian^†; undesigning, straightforward, unreserved, aboveboard; simple-minded, single-minded; frank-hearted, open-hearted, single-hearted, simple-hearted.    free-spoken, plain-spoken, outspoken; blunt, downright, direct, matter of fact, unpoetical^†; unflattering.    ... show more

Not knowledgeable about something specified:
— American tourists wholly innocent of French.

synonym: unacquainted.

Completely wanting or lacking:
— Innocent of literary merit.

synonyms: barren, destitute, devoid, free.

used of things Lacking sense or awareness.