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not guilty en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Of a person, legally innocent of a crime which they have been accused of in a court of law.
   • He was found not guilty because there was a reasonable doubt.
2. (nonstandard) Innocent.
   • The jury said he was not guilty. I knew he wouldn't have done something like that.

Synonyms

guiltless · blameless · sinless · clean · unguilty · innocent as the babe unborn · dovelike · blameless · irreprehensible · righteous · uncalculating · offenceless · unblameworthy · sackless · innocent as the child unborn · clean-handed · innocent · clear · clean as a whistle · not guilty · clean as a hound's tooth · unblameable · pure · nonblameworthy · offenseless

Translations (9)

el αθωωτικός (legally innocent of a crime of which one has been accused in a court of law) · it incolpevole (legally innocent of a crime of which one has been accused in a court of law) · fi syytön (legally innocent of a crime of which one has been accused in a court of law) · it inconfesso (legally innocent of a crime of which one has been accused in a court of law) · he זַכַּאי (legally innocent of a crime of which one has been accused in a court of law) · nrf non coupabl'ye (legally innocent of a crime of which one has been accused in a court of law) · pl niewinny (legally innocent of a crime of which one has been accused in a court of law) · ga neamhchiontach (legally innocent of a crime of which one has been accused in a court of law) · de nicht schuldig (legally innocent of a crime of which one has been accused in a court of law)

not guilty en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A formal plea by a defendant of not being culpable for the crime with which the defendant is charged.
   • If you do not plead, a plea of not guilty will be entered for you.
2. A verdict or formal finding by the legal system that a defendant is not culpable for the crime with which the defendant was charged.
   • My heart beats through five not guilties. Six, seven, nine, eleven. Seventeen not guilties. The prosecutor's lips curl. 2003, D.B.C. Pierre, Vernon God Little, →ISBN, page 238:
3. A member of a jury or tribunal supporting acquittal, or a vote cast in support of acquittal.
   • Two not guilties. Seven for conviction. "I'm a 'not guilty,'" she said. 2006, John Lutz, Chill of Night, →ISBN, page 213:
4. A person who has been acquitted of a crime.
   • The not guilties walked out and went to work if they had jobs; the guilties were hauled away to spend maybe thirty days on the county farm growing cabbage. 1997, David Brinkley, “June 5, 1983”, in Everyone Is Entitled to My Opinion, →ISBN, page 32:

Forms

Antonyms

guilty

Coordinates

guilty (plea of non-culpability) · no contest (plea of non-culpability) · not proven (plea of non-culpability) · nolo contendere (plea of non-culpability) · guilty (verdict of non-culpability)

Synonyms

quittance · acquittance · acquittal · vindication · disculpation · acquittal · exculpation · acquitment · exoneration · compurgation · absolution · quittance · assoilment · not guilty · innocent · exoneration

Translations (4)

ru невино́вный (verdict of non-culpability) · ru невино́вный (plea of non-culpability) · fi vapauttava päätös (verdict of non-culpability) · fi syyttömyys (plea of non-culpability)