unimplicated

1 6.8

Not found to be involved in a crime or bad event

adjective
/ˌʌnɪmˈplɪkeɪtɪd/

: no implicado

The report indicated that several party members were unimplicated in the corruption case and had acted in good faith.

Examples

Despite the accusations, the investigation cleared her name, confirming she was unimplicated in the crime.
Maybe she believed in her own pose of innocence, felt unimplicated in the anguish around her, in her marriages, her nursery.

Fiction book (2000)
The lawyer argued that his client remained unimplicated in the scandal, providing evidence to support his claim.

Synonyms

unindicted

vsunimplicated

Specialized

5 7.3

A person who is not officially charged with a crime in court

focuses on lack of shown or proven involvement rather than formal charges

Antonyms

implicated

40 6.4

A person evidence shows is involved in a crime or wrongdoing

How Implicated

accused

131 3.6

implicated

40 6.4

involved

∞ 3.5

unimplicated

1 6.8

Surface Forms

unimplicated positive

Morphology

unimplicated = implicated (transparent) = un + implicate + ed

Formed by the productive negative prefix 'un-' added to 'implicated', yielding the straightforward meaning 'not implicated'.

Etymology

Unimplicated is made of un- ('not') and implicate, which is like complicate and comes from an old idea of 'folding in' someone to show they are part of something. So unimplicated means 'not shown or proven to be involved', and we use it when someone is cleared after an investigation.