| Main Entry: |
naive |
| Part of Speech: |
adjective |
| Definition: |
childlike, trusting |
Synonyms: |
aboveboard, artless,
callow, candid, confiding, countrified,
credulous,
forthright, frank,
fresh, green*, guileless,
gullible,
harmless,
ignorant,
impulsive,
ingenuous, innocent,
innocuous,
instinctive,
jejune, lamb, like a babe in the woods, natural, open,
original, patsy, plain, simple, simple-minded, sincere,
spontaneous, square, sucker, unaffected, unjaded,
unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untaught, unworldly,
virgin, wide-eyed
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Antonyms: |
experienced, leery, skeptical, wise
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* = informal/non-formal usage
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