| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A young person between birth and puberty: bud1, child, juvenile, moppet, tot1, youngster. Informal : kid. Scots : bairn. See KIN, YOUTH. 2. A guileless, unsophisticated person: babe, child, ingénue, naive. Idioms: babe in the woods. See KNOWLEDGE. 3. A pure, uncorrupted person: angel, lamb, virgin. See CLEAN, RIGHT. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Free from guile, cunning, or deceit: artless, guileless, ingenuous, naive, natural, simple, unaffected, unsophisticated, unstudied, unworldly. See HONEST. 2. Not having a desirable element: barren, destitute, devoid, empty, lacking, void, wanting. Idioms: in want of. See FULL. 3. Devoid of hurtful qualities: harmless, hurtless, innocuous, inoffensive, unoffensive. See HELP. 4. Not aware or informed: ignorant, oblivious, unacquainted, unaware, unconscious, unenlightened, unfamiliar, uninformed, unknowing, unwitting. Idioms: in the dark. See KNOWLEDGE. 5. Free from evil and corruption: angelic, angelical, clean, lily-white, pure, sinless, unblemished, uncorrupted, undefiled, unstained, unsullied, untainted, virginal. Idioms: pure as the driven snow. See CLEAN, RIGHT, SEX. 6. Free from guilt or blame: blameless, faultless, guiltless, harmless, irreproachable, lily-white, unblamable. Slang : clean. Idioms: in the clear. See RIGHT. 7. Within, allowed by, or sanctioned by the law: lawful, legal, legitimate, licit. Slang : legit. See LAW.
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