not guilty

1. 1.

   declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless

   “he stands acquitted on all charges”

   “the jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity”

   Synonymsacquitted

   Similarinnocent

Questions about not guilty

What does not guilty mean?

not guilty means "declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless".

What is another word for not guilty?

Close synonyms include acquitted. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is not guilty a common word?

not guilty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.