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| Main Entry: | innocent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blameless |
| Synonyms: | above suspicion, angelic, chaste, clean, clear, exemplary, faultless, good, guiltless, honest, immaculate, impeccable, inculpable, irreproachable, lawful, legal, legitimate, licit, pristine, pure, righteous, safe, sinless, spotless, stainless, unblemished, unimpeachable, unsullied, upright, virtuous, cleanhanded, crimeless, free of, guilt-free, impeccant, in the clear, not guilty, uncensurable, uncorrupt, uninvolved, unoffending, untainted, virginal |
| Antonyms: | bad, blamable, corrupt, evil, guilty, sinful |
| Main Entry: | innocent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harmless, naive |
| Synonyms: | artless, childlike, credulous, frank, fresh, guileless, gullible, ignorant, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocuous, inoffensive, open, raw, safe, simple, soft, square, unacquainted, unfamiliar, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, unworldly, youthful, hurtless, innoxious, inobnoxious, offenseless, unartificial, uncool, unhurtful, uninjurious, unmalicious, unobjectionable, unoffensive, unsuspicious, well-intentioned, wellmeant, wide-eyed |
| Antonyms: | cunning, experienced, impure, knowledgeable |
| Main Entry: | angelic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sweet, kind, and usually beautiful |
| Synonyms: | adorable, beatific, beneficent, celestial, devout, divine, entrancing, ethereal, godly, good, heavenly, holy, humble, innocent, lovely, otherworldly, pure, radiant, rapturous, righteous, saintly, self-sacrificing, seraphic, virtuous, archangelic, cherubic |
| Antonyms: | demonic, devilish, fiendish, unkind |
| Main Entry: | artless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | simple |
| Synonyms: | direct, genuine, guileless, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naive, natural, open, plain, pure, sincere, straight, straightforward, true, unadorned, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, up front, talking turkey, uncontrived |
| Antonyms: | artful, complicated, contrived, pretentious, sophisticated |
| Main Entry: | blameless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not responsible |
| Synonyms: | above suspicion, clean, clear, exemplary, faultless, good, guiltless, immaculate, impeccable, inculpable, innocent, irreproachable, perfect, pure, righteous, stainless, unblemished, unimpeachable, unsullied, untarnished, upright, virtuous, clean-handed, crimeless, guilt-free, in the clear, irreprehensible, not guilty, unoffending, unspotted |
| Antonyms: | culpable, guilty, responsible, impeachable, reproachable |
| Main Entry: | chaste |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pure, incorrupt |
| Synonyms: | austere, celibate, clean, continent, decent, decorous, elegant, immaculate, impotent, inexperienced, innocent, modest, moral, neat, platonic, proper, prudish, quiet, refined, restrained, simple, spotless, stainless, subdued, unaffected, unblemished, undefiled, unstained, unsullied, vestal, virtuous, wholesome, controlled, intemerate, monogamous, uncontaminated, unwed, virginal |
| Antonyms: | corrupt, defiled, dirty, lewd, wanton, unchaste |
| Main Entry: | child |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very young person |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, babe, baby, brat, cherub, chick, cub, descendant, imp, infant, innocent, issue, juvenile, kid, minor, mite, moppet, newborn, nipper, offspring, progeny, sprout, squirt, stripling, suckling, teenager, toddler, tyke, urchin*, youngster, youth, anklebiter, bairn, bambino, dickens, kiddie, lamb, little angel, little darling, little doll, little one, neonate, nestling, nursling, preteen, pubescent, shaver, small fry, tadpole, teen, teenybopper, tot, whippersnapper, young one |
| Antonyms: | adult |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | childish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immature, silly |
| Synonyms: | adolescent, baby, babyish, callow, childlike, foolish, frivolous, green, infantile, innocent, jejune, juvenile, kid stuff*, naive, puerile, unsophisticated, young, youthful, infantine |
| Notes: | childlike refers to a person's temperament, whereas childish refers to a person's behavior |
| Antonyms: | adult, mature, sensible, serious, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | devoid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | empty, wanting |
| Synonyms: | bare, barren, bereft, deficient, destitute, innocent, lacking, needed, vacant, void, without, denuded, free from, sans, unprovided with |
| Antonyms: | complete, filled, full |
| Main Entry: | exemplary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ideal |
| Synonyms: | admirable, blameless, characteristic, classic, classical, commendable, correct, estimable, excellent, good, guiltless, honorable, illustrative, inculpable, innocent, laudable, meritorious, model, praiseworthy, punctilious, pure, quintessential, representative, righteous, sterling, typical, virtuous, worthy, batting a thousand, bueno, irreprehensible, neato, not bad, not too shabby, paradigmatic, prototypical |
| Antonyms: | erring, incorrect, wrong, unideal |
| Main Entry: | faultless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having nothing wrong with it |
| Synonyms: | accurate, blameless, classic, clean, correct, exemplary, exquisite, faithful, flawless, foolproof, guiltless, ideal, immaculate, impeccable, inculpable, innocent, intact, irreproachable, model, perfect, pure, sinless, spotless, stainless, supreme, textbook*, unblemished, unsullied, whole, above reproach, crimeless, errorless, on target, right on, unguilty, unspotted |
| Antonyms: | imperfect, tainted, blemished, flawed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fool |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stupid or ridiculous person |
| Synonyms: | ass, blockhead*, bonehead*, boob*, bore, buffoon, clod*, clown, cretin*, dimwit*, dolt*, dope*, dunce, easy mark*, fair game, idiot, ignoramus, illiterate, imbecile, innocent, jerk*, lightweight*, moron, nerd*, nincompoop*, nitwit, numskull*, oaf, sap*, schlemiel*, silly, simpleton, stooge*, sucker, victim, birdbrain, dumb ox, dunderhead, fathead, goose*, halfwit, lamebrain*, loon, ninny, turkey, twerp, twit |
| Antonyms: | brain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | guileless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | honest |
| Synonyms: | aboveboard, artless, candid, frank, genuine, ingenuous, innocent, naive, natural, open, simple, sincere, straightforward, truthful, unaffected, unsophisticated, unstudied, simple-minded, undesigning |
| Antonyms: | artful, clever, crafty, cunning, deceitful, dishonest, tricky, guileful |
| Main Entry: | guiltless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blameless, not responsible |
| Synonyms: | clean, clear, exemplary, faultless, free, good, immaculate, impeccable, inculpable, innocent, irreproachable, pure, righteous, sinless, spotless, unimpeachable, unsullied, untarnished, virtuous, crimeless, untainted |
| Antonyms: | corrupt, guilty, immoral, sinful, wrong, blameful |
| Main Entry: | gullible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | naive, trusting |
| Synonyms: | believing, biting, credulous, easy mark*, foolish, green*, innocent, mark*, silly, simple, sucker, susceptible, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, being a sucker, easily taken in, falling hook line and sinker, kidding oneself, swallowing whole, taken in, taking the bait, trustful, tumbling for, unskeptical, wide-eyed |
| Antonyms: | astute, discerning, knowledgeable, perceptive, suspicious, unbelieving, wise, untrusting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | harmless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not injurious or dangerous |
| Synonyms: | gentle, guiltless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, inoperative, kind, manageable, naive, powerless, reliable, safe, sanitary, simple, soft*, sound, sure, trustworthy, controllable, disarmed, hurtless, innoxious, nonirritating, nontoxic, painless, paper-tiger, pussycat, softie, unobjectionable, unoffensive |
| Antonyms: | bad, destructive, evil, harmful, hurtful, injurious, sinful, wicked |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | holy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | religious, sacred |
| Synonyms: | angelic, believing, blessed, chaste, clean, consecrated, dedicated, devoted, devotional, devout, divine, faithful, faultless, god-fearing, godlike, godly, good, hallowed, humble, immaculate, innocent, just, moral, perfect, pious, pure, reverent, righteous, sacrosanct, saintly, sanctified, seraphic, spiritual, spotless, sublime, undefiled, unworldly, upright, venerable, virtuous, glorified, messianic, pietistic, prayerful, revered, sainted, saintlike, uncorrupt, untainted, venerated |
| Antonyms: | depraved, evil, immoral, irreligious, irreverent, sacrilegious, sinful, unholy, vile, wicked, unsacred |
| Main Entry: | ignorant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unaware, unknowing |
| Synonyms: | dense, green*, illiterate, in the dark, inexperienced, innocent, insensible, mindless, moronic, naive, oblivious, obtuse, shallow, thick, unconscious, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed, uninitiated, unlearned, unmindful, unschooled, unsuspecting, untaught, untrained, unwitting, witless, apprenticed, benighted, birdbrained, blind to, cretinous, imbecilic, misinformed, nescient, unconversant, unintellectual, unknowledgeable, unlettered, unread |
| Antonyms: | aware, competent, educated, intelligent, knowledgeable, literate, talented, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impeccable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | above suspicion; flawless |
| Synonyms: | accurate, aces, clean, correct, exact, exquisite, faultless, immaculate, infallible, innocent, irreproachable, nice, perfect, precise, pure, right, sinless, stainless, ten*, unblemished, unerring, unimpeachable, A-okay, apple-pie, errorless, fleckless, incorrupt, note-perfect, on target, unflawed |
| Antonyms: | corrupt, defective, imperfect, suspicious, wrong, blemished, flawed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inexperienced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unskilled, unfamiliar |
| Synonyms: | amateur, callow, fresh, green*, ignorant, immature, inept, inexpert, innocent, kid*, naive, new, raw*, rookie, rude, sophomoric, tenderfoot*, unaccustomed, unacquainted, undisciplined, unschooled, unseasoned, unsophisticated, untrained, untried, unused, unversed, unworldly, verdant, young, prentice, spring chicken, unconversant, unfamiliar with, unfledged, unpracticed, wet behind ears |
| Antonyms: | educated, experienced, expert, familiar, seasoned, skilled, trained, versed, schooled |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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