Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

innocent

/ˈɪnəsənt/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms innocents hinnocent

  1. adjective Free from guilt, sin, or immorality. “I'm sure there's an innocent explanation for all this.”
  2. adjective Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
  3. adjective Without wrongful intent; accidental or in good faith. “He didn't mean anything by it; it was an innocent mistake.”
  4. adjective Naive; artless.
  5. adjective (obsolete except medicine) Not harmful; innocuous; harmless; benign.
  6. adjective (with of) Lacking (something), or knowledge of it.
  7. adjective Lawful; permitted. “an innocent trade”
  8. adjective Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture. “innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation”
  9. noun One who is innocent, especially a young child. “The slaughter of the innocents was a significant event in the New Testament.”
  10. noun (obsolete) A harmless simple-minded person; an idiot.
  11. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

sackless guiltless blameless pure untainted ingenuous unworldly artless callow childlike verdant clueless credulous dewy-eyed cute fleeceable foppotee green guileless jejune inexperienced person clean-handed innocuous impeccant sinless unacquainted barren destitute devoid free

Antonyms

guilty nocent perverse blameworthy

Etymology

From Middle English innocent, from Old French innocent, inocent, borrowed from Latin innocēns (“harmless, inoffensive”), from in- (“not”) + nocēns, present participle of noceō (“to hurt”). By surface analysis, in- (“not”) + nocent (“harmful; guilty”). Displaced native Old English unsċyldiġ.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.
  2. adjective Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright.
  3. noun An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin. Shak.
  4. noun An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot.

Etymology [F.innocent, L. innocens, -entis; pref. in- not + nocens, p.pr. of nocere to harm, hurt. See Noxious.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “innocent”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “innocent” (best matches first).

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