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Synonyms & Antonyms of innocent
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- an innocent baby
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- the robbery suspect was eventually found to be innocent
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- an innocent offer to sing before the gathering
Synonyms for innocent
- artless,
- genuine,
- guileless,
- honest,
- ingenuous,
- naive
- (or naïve),
- natural,
- real,
- simple,
- sincere,
- true,
- unaffected,
- unpretending,
- unpretentious
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- childlike,
- dewy-eyed,
- gee-whiz,
- impressionable,
- inexperienced,
- malleable,
- persuadable,
- persuasible,
- simpleminded,
- unsophisticated,
- unworldly,
- wide-eyed
- candid,
- direct,
- frank,
- free,
- free-spoken,
- open,
- openhearted,
- plain,
- plainspoken,
- single-minded,
- straight,
- straightforward,
- unguarded
- exploitable,
- gullible
- (also gullable),
- susceptible,
- unwary
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- affected,
- artful,
- artificial,
- assuming,
- dishonest,
- dissembling,
- dissimulating,
- fake,
- false,
- guileful,
- insincere,
- phony
- (also phoney),
- pretentious
- an innocent young woman who felt a little out of place among her more sophisticated roommates
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- aw-shucks,
- dewy,
- dewy-eyed,
- green,
- ingenuous,
- naïf
- (or naif),
- naive
- (or naïve),
- primitive,
- simple,
- simpleminded,
- uncritical,
- unknowing,
- unsophisticated,
- unsuspecting,
- unsuspicious,
- unwary,
- unworldly,
- wide-eyed
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- down-to-earth,
- hardheaded,
- pragmatic
- (also pragmatical),
- realistic,
- sober
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- good-natured teasing that is just innocent fun
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- hazardous,
- imperiling
- (or imperilling),
- jeopardizing,
- parlous,
- perilous,
- risky,
- unsafe,
- unsound
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- a woman who seems entirely innocent of good manners and common courtesy
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innocent
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of innocent (Entry 2 of 2)
- an innocent who is often puzzled by and prey to the evils of the world
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“Innocent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innocent. Accessed 1 Oct. 2022.
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