Dictionary entry

Innocent

Pronunciation: /ˈɪnəs(ə)nt/

Pronunciation

/ˈɪnəs(ə)nt/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) အပြစ်မဲ့

Definition

innocent /'Çnǝsnt/ adj ၁။ ~ (of sth) အျပစ္မဲ့ေသာ။ be innocent of a crime/ charge ❍ They have imprisoned an innocent man. ၂။ အျပစ္မဲ့ေသာ။ an innocent bystander ❍ innocent victims of the bomb blast. ၃။ အျပစ္ကင္းေသာ။ innocent amusement/ enjoyment ❍ It was a perfectly innocent question. ၄။ အျပစ္မဲ့ေသာ။ အျပစ္ကင္းေသာ။ မလည္မဝယ္။ her innocent young niece ❍ Don't be so innocent as to believe everything the politicians tell you. n အျပစ္မဲ့သူ (အထူးသျဖင့္ ကေလးသူငယ္)။ ❏ innocence /-sns/ n [U] ၁။ အျပစ္ကင္းစင္ျခင္း။ She protested her innocence (ie kept saying she was innocent). ❍ do sth in all innocence (ie without knowing it to be wrong or likely to offend). ၂။ အျပစ္ကင္းျခင္း။ မလည္မဝယ္ရိွျခင္း။ Children lose their innocence as they grow older. ❏ innocently adv ႐ိုး႐ိုးအအ။ ႐ိုး႐ိုးစင္းစင္း။ သေဘာ႐ိုးျဖင့္။ ‘Is Jenny your daughter?’ she asked innocently.

Examples

  1. Under the law
  2. everyone is considered innocent until proved guilty.
  3. The imprisonment of innocent people
  4. [innocent of a crime/charge] : She was completely innocent of any crime.
  5. The innocent victims of terrorism
  6. An innocent remark
  7. An innocent mistake
  8. An innocent child
  9. She can’t be as innocent as she seems.
  10. The affair had begun innocently enough.