Naive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lacking worldly experience and understanding, especially:
  • adj. Simple and guileless; artless: a child with a naive charm.
  • adj. Unsuspecting or credulous: "Students, often bright but naive, bet—and lose—substantial sums of money on sporting events” ( Tim Layden).
  • adj. Showing or characterized by a lack of sophistication and critical judgment: "this extravagance of metaphors, with its naive bombast” ( H.L. Mencken).
  • adj. Not previously subjected to experiments: testing naive mice.
  • adj. Not having previously taken or received a particular drug: persons naive to marijuana.
  • n. One who is artless, credulous, or uncritical.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Lacking experience, wisdom, or judgement.
  • adj. Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank
  • adj. Having a lack of knowledge, judgment, or experience; especially, lacking sophistication in judging the motives of others; credulous.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Simple; unsophisticated; ingenuous; artless.
  • In philosophy, unreflective; uncritical.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. lacking information or instruction
  • adj. marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
  • adj. inexperienced
  • adj. not initiated; deficient in relevant experience
  • adj. of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
  • Equivalent
    uninformed    simple-minded    gullible    round-eyed    innocent    green    simple    childlike    dewy-eyed    fleeceable   
    Form
    naivety    naivete    naiveness    naively   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ingenuous    artless    frank    credulous   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Eve    Kleve    Neave    Rajiv    Steve    achieve    aggrieve    aleve    believe    bereave   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    childlike    frank    ingenuous    foolish    childish    candid    ignorant    vulnerable    credulous    unsophisticated