innocently

1. 1.

   in a not unlawful manner

   “he claimed to have purchased the contraband innocently”
2. 2.

   in a naively innocent manner

   “she smiled at him innocently”

Questions about innocently

What does innocently mean?

innocently means "in a not unlawful manner". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in innocently?

innocently has 4 syllables: in-no-cent-ly. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪnəsəntli/.

Is innocently a common word?

innocently is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.