Synonyms for not guilty
not guilty

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1. not guiltynoun

   Antonyms:
   guilty

2. not guiltynoun

   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.

   Antonyms:
   guilty

3. not guiltynoun

   Innocent.

   The jury said he was not guilty. I knew he wouldn't have done something like that.

   Antonyms:
   guilty

4. not guiltynoun

   Antonyms:
   guilty

5. not guiltynoun

   Antonyms:
   guilty

6. not guiltynoun

   Synonyms:
   innocent, acquittal

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1. acquitted, not guiltyadjective

   declared not guilty of a specific offense or crime; legally blameless

   "he stands acquitted on all charges"; "the jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity"

   Synonyms:
   acquitted

   Antonyms:
   guilty

Suggested Resources

1. not guilty

   Read the full text of the Not Guilty poem by Ambrose Bierce on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Kyle Dugger:

   When insanity is raised as a defense, the jury can return a verdict of guilty, not guilty, not guilty by reason of insanity, or guilty but mentally ill.

2. Theodore Roosevelt:

   When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not Guilty."

3. Russian President Vladimir Putin:

   The United States Attorney General has already stated that these officers of the FIFA executive committee have committed a crime, as though (the) prosecutor is unaware of the presumption of innocence, only a court can find a person guilty or not guilty, and only after that can anyone say anything.

4. Eugene McLaughlin:

   The case is almost beyond legal adjudication, no matter if Amanda Knox or Raffaele Sollecito are found guilty or not guilty, it has taken on an after-life of its own.' The protracted online battle took root in the Paleolithic era of social media, when tabloids plumbed Knox's MySpace page for early photos of a smiling and carefree student, wisps of hair blowing from beneath a rolled knit cap, picking up on the.

5. Stanislaw J. Lec:

   Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.