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innocent
Synonyms and Antonyms of innocent
- an innocent who is often puzzled by and prey to the evils of the world
innocent
Synonyms and Antonyms of innocent
- an innocent baby
- the robbery suspect was eventually found to be innocent
- an innocent offer to sing before the gathering
artless, genuine, guileless, honest, ingenuous, naive (or naïve), natural, real, simple, sincere, true, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious
childlike, dewy-eyed, gee-whiz, impressionable, inexperienced, malleable, persuadable, persuasible, simpleminded, unsophisticated, unworldly, wide-eyed
spontaneous, unforced, unstudied
candid, direct, frank, free, free-spoken, open, openhearted, plain, plainspoken, single-minded, straight, straightforward, unguarded
exploitable, gullible (also gullable), susceptible, unwary
critical, cynical, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, wary
cosmopolitan, sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise
civilized, cultivated, cultured, polished, refined
crooked, deceitful, deceptive, devious, double-dealing, hypocritical, manipulative, two-faced
arch, calculating, canny, crafty, cunning, designing, foxy, knavish, scheming, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, subtle, tricky, underhanded, wily
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
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
critical, cynical, doubting, incredulous, skeptical, suspecting, suspicious, unconvinced
careful, cautious, guarded, leery (also leary), wary, watchful
down-to-earth, hardheaded, pragmatic (also pragmatical), realistic, sober
- good-natured teasing that is just innocent fun
menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening
hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound
nasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome
offensive, painful, scathing, wounding
deadly, fatal, lethal, ruinous
destructive, insidious, malignant, noxious, pestilent, polluted, tainted
- a woman who seems entirely innocent of good manners and common courtesy
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