naive

Plural: naives

Adjective

• Showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment.
• marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
  • "a teenager's naive ignorance of life"
  • "the naive assumption that things can only get better"
  • "this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances"

Adjective Satellite

• of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
• inexperienced
• lacking information or instruction
• not initiated; deficient in relevant experience
  • "he took part in the experiment as a naive subject"

Adj

• Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
• Not having been exposed to something.
• Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
• Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.

Noun

• A person who is naive; an unsophisticated individual.
• A naive person; a greenhorn.

Examples

• It was naive to think his opponent wouldn’t challenge such an obscure word.
• The new player was a naive, easily falling for classic Scrabble traps.

Synonyms

naif, primitive, unenlightened, uninitiate, uninitiated, uninstructed, Panglossian, Panglossic, artless, born yesterday, callow, childlike, clueless, credulous, cute, dewy-eyed, fleeceable, green, guileless, immature, ingenuous, innocent, jejune, quaint, simple, simple-hearted, simple-minded, starry-eyed, unaffected, undesigning, unpretentious, unsophisticated, untested, unworldly, virgin, wet behind the ears, wide-eyed

Antonyms

sophisticated, affected, mature, nuanced, pretentious, wily, worldly

Related Words

babe in the woods, be born yesterday, beginner, bumpkin, greenhorn, gullible, ingenue, just fell off the back of a turnip truck, mark, naif, naivety, naïf, naïveté, new, new kid on the block, newbie, noob, noobie, rube, sucker, sweet summer child, NAIVELY

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