Innocent vs Impeccable - What's the difference?
innocent | impeccable | Synonyms |
Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
* 1606 , , IV. iii. 16:
Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
Naive; artless.
* 1600 , , V. ii. 37:
(obsolete) Not harmful; innocuous; harmless.
* Alexander Pope
Having no knowledge (of something).
Lacking (something).
Lawful; permitted.
Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.
Those who are innocent; young children.
Perfect, without faults, flaws or errors
Incapable of wrongdoing or sin; immaculate
As adjectives the difference between innocent and impeccable
is that innocent is (pure, free from sin, untainted)Free from guilt, sin, or immorality while impeccable is perfect, without faults, flaws or errors.As a noun innocent
is those who are innocent; young children.innocent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- to offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb
- I can find out no rhyme to / 'lady' but 'baby' – an innocent rhyme;
- an innocent medicine or remedy
- The spear / Sung innocent , and spent its force in air.
- an innocent trade
- innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation
Synonyms
* (free from blame or guilt) sackless * (free from sin) pure, untainted * See alsoAntonyms
* (bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act) guilty, nocentNoun
(en noun)- The slaughter of the innocents was a significant event in the New Testament.
impeccable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote. -
- He grew up in Norway, but he writes impeccable English.
- It was easy for James V to imprison Lady Glamis, but actually convicting her was far more difficult; her character was impeccable and she was highly respected by all who knew her.