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Nocent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Causing injury; harmful.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Causing injury; harmful.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Doing hurt, or having a tendency to hurt; hurtful; mischievous; noxious.

adj. Guilty; -- the opposite of innocent.

n. A criminal.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Hurtful; mischievous; injurious; doing hurt: as, nocent qualities.

Guilty; criminal.

n. One who is guilty; one who is not innocent.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. having a tendency to cause harm

Word Usage

"The "nocent" Catholics who had been in the rebellion, but who had submitted and constantly adhered to the Peace of 1648, if they had taken lands in Connaught, were to be bound by that arrangement, and not restored to their former estates."

Equivalent

harmful

Antonym

innocent

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

hurtful mischievous noxious guilty criminal harmful

Same Context

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