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say it: IN-uh-suhnt
innocent is an adjective and noun meaning "free from evil or guilt". It is pronounced /ˈɪnəsənt/ — IN-uh-suhnt. It carries 8 recorded senses.
not knowledgeable about something specified
“American tourists wholly innocent of French”
“a person unacquainted with our customs”
completely wanting or lacking
“writing barren of insight”
“young recruits destitute of experience”
“innocent of literary merit”
“the sentence was devoid of meaning”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for innocent come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.