English Explanatory Dictionary

nocent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Causing injury; harmful.
  2. guilty; not innocent
noun
  1. A guilty person.

Pronunciation

/ˈnəʊ.sənt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nocent.wav /ˈnoʊ.sənt/

Word forms

nocent more nocent most nocent nocents

Etymology

From Middle English nocent (“guilty”), from Latin nocens, present participle of nocere (“to harm”). Doublet of nuisant.

Synonyms

injurious nocuous harmful damaging deleterious detrimental hurtful inimical mischievous nocent noxious noisome prejudicial scathand scathel sullen venom culpable to blame at fault blameworthy censurable guilty reprehensible

Antonyms

innocent

Related words

nocency nocence

Derived words

nocently
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