Guiltless

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: guilt=less

CIDE DICTIONARY

Guiltless, a. 

•  Free from guilt; innocent.  [1913 Webster]

  "The Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain."  [1913 Webster]
•  Without experience or trial; unacquainted (with).  [1913 Webster]

  "Such gardening tools, as art, yet rude,
  Guiltless of fire, had formed."

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Guiltless, adj. 1 (often foll. by of an offence) innocent. 2 (foll. by of) not having knowledge or possession of.

Derivative

guiltlessly adv. guiltlessness n.

Etymology

OE gyltleas (as GUILT, -LESS)

THESAURUS

Guiltless

angelic, blameless, chaste, childlike, clean, clear, dovelike, exemplary, faultless, immaculate, in the clear, incorrupt, inculpable, innocent, irreproachable, lamblike, not guilty, offenseless, prelapsarian, pristine, pure, reproachless, righteous, sans reproche, sinless, unblamable, uncorrupted, undefiled, unfallen, unlapsed, untouched by evil, virtuous, with clean hands, without reproach

ROGET THESAURUS

Guiltless

Innocence

N innocence, guiltlessness, incorruption, impeccability, clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti, innocent, lamb, dove, innocent, not guilty, unguilty, guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless, clear, immaculate, rectus in curia, unspotted, unblemished, unerring, undefiled, unhardened, Saturnian, Arcadian, inculpable, unculpable, unblamed, unblamable, blameless, unfallen, inerrable, above suspicion, irreproachable, irreprovable, irreprehensible, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, unimpeachable, salvable, venial, harmless, inoffensive, innoxious, innocuous, dove-like, lamb-like, pure, harmless as doves, innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn, more sinned against than sinning, virtuous, unreproved, unimpeached, unreproached, innocently, with clean hands, with a clear conscience, with a safe conscience, murus aeneus conscientia sana.