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(used of things) lacking sense or awareness
e.g. fine innocent weather
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completely wanting or lacking
e.g. writing barren of insight
e.g. young recruits destitute of experience
e.g. innocent of literary merit
e.g. the sentence was devoid of meaning
Synonym: barren destitute devoid free
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lacking intent or capacity to injure
e.g. an innocent prank
Synonym: innocuous
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free from evil or guilt
e.g. an innocent child
e.g. the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty
Synonym: guiltless clean-handed
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lacking in sophistication or worldliness
e.g. a child's innocent stare
e.g. his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it
Synonym: ingenuous
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free from sin
Synonym: impeccant sinless