innocent

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
innocent/ˈɪnəsnt/

▶adjective

• 1 not guilty of a crime or offence.

  ■ not responsible or directly involved: an innocent bystander.

• 2 free from moral wrong; not corrupted.

• 3 not intended to cause offence; harmless.

• 4 (innocent of) without experience or knowledge of: a man innocent of war's cruelties.

  ■ without; lacking.

▶noun an innocent person.

– derivatives
innocence noun,
innocency noun (archaic),
innocently adverb.

– origin ME: from OFr., or from L. innocent- ‘not harming’, from in- ‘not’ + nocere ‘to hurt’.