States and conditions
Synonyms for innocent
Synonyms for innocent: guiltless, unacquainted and ingenuous. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for innocent
Interchangeable with innocent, one per sense
Audited under innocent's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one innocent carries in that sense.
- guiltlessadjective, in the sense "free from evil or guilt"
- unacquaintedadjective, in the sense "not knowledgeable about something specified"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name innocent as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- ingenuousingenuous is an adjective in the sense "lacking in sophistication or worldliness"
The first group is filed under innocent's own senses. The second reaches innocent from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
free from evil or guilt
The principle that one is innocent until proved guilty.
The true synonym
guiltless
Same sentence, swapped: The principle that one is guiltless until proved guilty.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot innocent is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- free
- ingenuous
- empty
not knowledgeable about something specified
American tourists wholly innocent of French.
The true synonym
unacquainted
Same sentence, swapped: American tourists wholly unacquainted of French.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where innocent stands in the sentence above.
- empty
- safe
- growing
Where innocent turns up in the game
innocent is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where innocent is the trap
- freeadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is detached, in the sense "not fixed in position", and innocent is on the board beside it.
- exemplaryadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is emblematic, in the sense "being or serving as an illustration of a type", with innocent sitting one tile away.
Play innocent
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so innocent reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because states and conditions is the company innocent keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. innocent carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.