noun
a naive or inexperienced person
• Hypernyms: ↑innocent, ↑inexperienced person
adjective
marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
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a teenager's naive ignorance of life
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the naive assumption that things can only get better
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this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances
• Syn: ↑naive
• Ant: ↑sophisticated (for: ↑naive)
• Similar to:
↑childlike, ↑wide-eyed, ↑round-eyed, ↑dewy-eyed, ↑simple, ↑credulous, ↑fleeceable, ↑green, ↑gullible, ↑innocent, ↑ingenuous, ↑simple-minded, ↑unsophisticated, ↑unworldly
• See Also: ↑credulous, ↑uninformed, ↑unworldly
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naifUseful english dictionary. 2012.