Definition of innocent

"innocent" in the noun sense

1. innocent, inexperienced person

a person who lacks knowledge of evil

"innocent" in the adjective sense

1. innocent, guiltless, clean-handed

free from evil or guilt

"an innocent child"

"the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty"

2. innocent, innocuous

lacking intent or capacity to injure

"an innocent prank"

3. impeccant, innocent, sinless

free from sin

4. innocent, ingenuous

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. innocent, unacquainted

not knowledgeable about something specified

"American tourists wholly innocent of French"

"a person unacquainted with our customs"

6. barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent

completely wanting or lacking

"writing barren of insight"

"young recruits destitute of experience"

"innocent of literary merit"

"the sentence was devoid of meaning"

7. innocent

used of things) lacking sense or awareness

"fine innocent weather"

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Quotations for innocent

Encourage innocent amusement. [ Addison ]

Angling is an innocent cruelty. [ George Parker ]

God made all pleasures innocent. [ Mrs. Norton ]

He who is sorry for having sinned
Is almost innocent. [ Seneca ]

No day is without its innocent hope. [ Ruskin ]

Who after his transgression doth repent
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent. [ Herrick ]

As innocent as a devil of two years old. [ Proverb ]

O happy earth.
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! [ Spenser ]

The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow. [ Cowper ]

He that is innocent may well be confident. [ Proverb ]

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving. [ Aaron Hill ]

Are you called forth from out a world of men,
To slay the innocent? [ William Shakespeare ]

If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent. [ Italian Proverb ]

True, conscious honor is to feel no sin;
He's armed without that's innocent within,
Be this thy screen and this thy wall of brass. [ Horace ]

Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep. [ William Shakespeare ]

Innocent actions carry their warrant with them. [ Proverb ]

Dance, laugh, and be merry; but be also innocent. [ Theodore Barriere ]

By noting of the lady I have marked
A thousand blushing apparitions
To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames.
In angel whiteness bear away those blushes. [ William Shakespeare ]

Better ten guilty escape than one innocent man suffer. [ Proverb ]

A sweet and innocent compliance is the cement of lore. [ Proverb ]

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent. [ Bible ]

The guilty man fears the law; the innocent man fortune. [ Proverb ]

As pure as a pearl, And as perfect; a noble and innocent girl. [ Lord Lytton ]

Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind. [ Moses Harvey ]

Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is always criminal. [ St Evremond ]

He that repents of a fault upon right grounds is almost innocent. [ Proverb ]

Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence. [ Tupper ]

Thine are the hours and days when both are cheering and innocent. [ Byron ]

An innocent man needs no eloquence; his innocence is instead of it. [ Ben Jonson ]

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy. [ Joubert ]

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty? [ Publius Syrus ]

Beautiful as sweet! and young as beautiful! and soft as young! and gay as soft! and innocent as gay! [ Young ]

The Golden Rule Of Three.

Three things to be - pure, just and honest.
Three things to govern - temper, tongue and conduct.
Three things to live - courage, affection and gentleness.
Three things to love - the wise, the virtuous and the innocent.
Three things to commend - thrift, industry and promptness.
Three things about which to think - life, death and eternity.
Three things to despise - cruelty, arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to admire - dignity, gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to cherish - the true, the beautiful and the good.
Three things for which to wish - health, friends and contentment.
Three things for which to fight - honor, home and country.
Three things to attain - goodness of heart, integrity of purpose and cheerfulness of disposition.
Three things to give - alms to the needy, comfort to the sad and appreciation to the worthy.
Three things to desire - the blessing of God, an approving conscience and the fellowship of the good.
Three things for which to work - a trained mind, a skilled hand and a regulated heart.
Three things for which to hope - a haven of peace, a robe of righteousness and the crown of life. [ Beattie ]

People should be guarded against temptation to unlawful pleasures by furnishing them means of innocent ones. [ Channing ]

All musical people seem to be happy. It is the engrossing pursuit - almost the only innocent and unpunished passion. [ Sydney Smith ]

Of all the evils of the world which are reproached with an evil character, death is the most innocent of its accusation. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions. [ Goethe ]

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind. [ Buddha ]

A man who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species. [ Frederick the Great ]

The scholar only knows how dear these silent yet eloquent companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. [ Washington Irving ]

Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? That parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man? [ William Shakespeare ]

The ways to enrich are many, and rfiost of thom foul. Parsimony is one of the best, and yet is not innocent; for it withholdeth men from works of liberality and charity. [ Bacon ]

Gallantry, though a fashionable crime, is a very detestable one; and the wretch who pilfers from us in the hour of distress is an innocent character compared to the plunderer who wantonly robs us of happiness and reputation. [ Rev. H. Kelley ]

After the pleasure of possessing books there is hardly anything more pleasant than that of speaking of them, and of communicating to the public the innocent richness of thought which we have acquired by the culture of letters. [ Nodier ]

We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. [ Izaak Walton ]

Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age - the only perfectly beautiful things on earth - joyous, innocent, half divine - useless, say they who are wiser than God. [ Ouida ]

Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in speaking their minds. A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune. [ Steele ]

In the use of the tongue God hath distinguished us from beasts, and by the well or ill using it we are distinguished from one another; and therefore, though silence be innocent as death, harmless as a rose's breath to a distant passenger, yet it is rather the state of death than life. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Music may be classed into natural, social, sacred, and martial; it is the twin sister of poetry, and like it has the power to sway the feelings and command the mind; in devotion it breathes the pure spirit of inspiration and love; in martial scenes it rouses the soul to fearless deeds of daring and valor, while it alleviates the cares, and enhances the innocent and cheerful enjoyments of domestic life. [ Acton ]

The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale. [ Colton ]

Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these interTafs. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains. [ Orville Dewey ]

Though no participator in the joys of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions of the tenderness due to dumb creatures, in the tranquil cruelty of angling. I can only palliate the wanton destructiveness of my amusement by trying to assure myself that my pleasure does not spring from the success of the treachery I practice toward a poor little fish, but rather from that innocent revelry in the luxuriance of summer life which only anglers enjoy to the utmost. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

Mother! How many delightful associations cluster around that word! The innocent smiles of infancy, the gambols of boyhood, and the happiest hours of riper years! When my heart aches and my limbs are weary travelling the thorny path of life, I sit down on some mossy stone, and closing my eyes on real scenes, send my spirit back to the days of early life; I feel afresh my infant joys and sorrows, till my spirit recovers its tone, and is willing to pursue its journey. But in all these reminiscences my mother rises; if I seat myself upon my cushion, it is at her side; if I sing, it is to her ear; if I walk the walls or the meadows, my little hand is in my mother's, and my little feet keep company with hers; when my heart bounds with its best joy, it is because at the performance of some task, or the recitation of some verses, I receive a present from her hand. There is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose so lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps. [ Bishop Thomson ]

innocent in Scrabble®

The word innocent is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters innocent:

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innocent in Words With Friends™

The word innocent is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters innocent:

INNOCENT
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Words within the letters of innocent

2 letter words in innocent (6 words)

3 letter words in innocent (16 words)

4 letter words in innocent (14 words)

5 letter words in innocent (5 words)

6 letter words in innocent (2 words)

8 letter words in innocent (1 word)

innocent + 1 blank (5 words)

Words containing the sequence innocent

Words that start with innocent (5 words)

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Word Growth involving innocent

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