Synonyms of the word naive


NAIVECHILDLIKE - CREDULOUS - DEWY-EYED - FLEECEABLE - GREEN - GULLIBLE - INEXPERIENCED - INGENUOUS - INNATE - INNOCENT - NAIF - PRIMITIVE - SIMPLE - SIMPLE-MINDED - UNCONDITIONED - UNENLIGHTENED - UNINFORMED - UNINITIATE - UNINITIATED - UNINSTRUCTED - UNLEARNED - UNSOPHISTICATED - UNTRAINED - UNWORLDLY - WIDE-EYED

naive

  • adj. Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated; against better judgement.
  • adj. (of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.
  • adj. (computing) Intuitive; designed to follow the way ordinary people approach a problem.

childlike

  • adj. innocent and trustful; credulous; artless.
  • adj. of, like, or suitable for a child.

credulous

  • adj. Excessively ready to believe things; gullible.
  • adj. (obsolete) Believed too readily.

dewy-eyed

  • adj. Having eyes with a moist, glistening appearance, especially as indicating that one is on the verge of…
  • adj. (figuratively) Naive or innocent in the manner of a child.
  • adj. Excessively nostalgic.

fleeceable

  • adj. able to be fleeced; naive and gullible.

green

  • adj. Having green as its color.
  • adj. (figuratively, of people) Sickly, unwell.
  • adj. Unripe, said of certain fruits that change color when they ripen.
  • adj. (figuratively, of people) Inexperienced.
  • adj. (figuratively, of people) Naïve or unaware of obvious facts.
  • adj. (figuratively, of people) Overcome with envy.
  • adj. (figuratively) Environmentally friendly.
  • adj. (cricket) Describing a pitch which, even if there is no visible grass, still contains a significant amount…
  • adj. (dated) Of bacon or similar smallgoods: unprocessed, raw, unsmoked; not smoked or spiced.
  • adj. (dated) Not fully roasted; half raw.
  • adj. Of freshly cut wood or lumber that has not been dried: containing moisture and therefore relatively more…
  • adj. (wine) High or too high in acidity.
  • adj. Full of life and vigour; fresh and vigorous; new; recent.
  • adj. (Philippines) Having a sexual connotation.
  • adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of green.
  • n. The colour of growing foliage, as well as other plant cells containing chlorophyll; the colour between…
  • n. (politics, sometimes capitalised) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.
  • n. (golf) A putting green, the part of a golf course near the hole.
  • n. (bowls) The surface upon which bowls is played.
  • n. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
  • n. (Britain) a public patch of land in the middle of a settlement.
  • n. A grassy plain; a piece of ground covered with verdant herbage.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants; wreaths.
  • n. Any substance or pigment of a green colour.
  • n. (Britain, slang, uncountable) marijuana.
  • n. (US, slang, uncountable) Money.
  • n. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
  • v. (transitive) To make (something) green, to turn (something) green.
  • v. To become or grow green in colour.
  • v. (transitive) To add greenspaces to (a town).
  • v. (intransitive) To become environmentally aware.
  • v. (transitive) To make (something) environmentally friendly.

gullible

  • adj. Easily deceived or duped; naïve, easily cheated or fooled.

inexperienced

  • adj. Not experienced; lacking knowledge or experience; green.
  • adj. Virginal or lacking in personal knowledge and experiences of sex.

ingenuous

  • adj. Naive and trusting.
  • adj. Demonstrating childlike simplicity.
  • adj. Unsophisticated; simple.
  • adj. Unable to mask one's feelings.
  • adj. Straightforward, candid, open, and frank.

innate

  • adj. inborn; existing or having existed since birth.
  • adj. (philosophy) Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired…
  • adj. instinctive; coming from instinct.
  • adj. (botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament.
  • v. To cause to exist; to call into being.

innocent

  • adj. Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
  • adj. Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
  • adj. Naive; artless.
  • adj. (obsolete) Not harmful; innocuous; harmless.
  • adj. (with of) Having no knowledge (of something).
  • adj. (with of) Lacking (something).
  • adj. Lawful; permitted.
  • adj. Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.
  • n. Those who are innocent; young children.

naif

  • adj. Naive.
  • n. One who is naive.

primitive

  • n. (linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.
  • n. A member of a primitive society.
  • n. A simple-minded person.
  • n. (computing, programming) A data type that is built into the programming language, as opposed to more complex…
  • n. (computing, programming) Any of the simplest elements (instructions, statements, etc.) available in a…
  • n. A basic geometric shape from which more complex shapes can be constructed.
  • n. (mathematics) A function whose derivative is a given function; an antiderivative.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to or harking back to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity.
  • adj. Crude, obsolete.
  • adj. (grammar) Original; primary; radical; not derived.
  • adj. (biology) Occurring in or characteristic of an early stage of development or evolution.
  • adj. (mathematics) Not derived from another of the same type.

simple

  • adj. Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
  • adj. Without ornamentation; plain.
  • adj. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
  • adj. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
  • adj. (now rare) Trivial; insignificant.
  • adj. (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
  • adj. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
  • adj. (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
  • n. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
  • n. (obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.
  • n. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
  • n. (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
  • n. (weaving) A drawloom.
  • n. (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
  • n. (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e., medicinal herbs.

simple-minded

  • adj. Lacking subtlety or sophistication.
  • adj. Lacking mental capacity; feeble-minded.

unconditioned

  • adj. Without conditions; absolute.
  • adj. Not having been conditioned.
  • adj. Not treated with hair conditioner.

unenlightened

  • adj. Not enlightened; ignorant in general or of some particular fact.

uninformed

  • adj. not informed; ignorant.

uninitiate

  • n. Those who have not been initiated, outsiders.
  • n. Not experienced.

uninitiated

  • adj. Not having been initiated.
  • adj. Of a person, not having the special knowledge of a particular group.

uninstructed

  • adj. Not instructed.
  • adj. (archaic) uneducated.

unlearned

  • adj. Of a person, ignorant, uneducated, untaught, untrained.
  • adj. Of a behavior, not learned; innate.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of unlearn.

unsophisticated

  • adj. Not sophisticated; lacking sophistication.

untrained

  • adj. Lacking training, not having been instructed in something.

unworldly

  • adj. Of or relating to the spiritual as opposed to the material.
  • adj. Unconcerned with secular matters.
  • adj. Lacking sophistication.

wide-eyed

  • adj. Having large or wide-open eyes.
  • adj. (by extension) Astonished or surprised.

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