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NAIVE Synonyms

There are 21 synonyms of the word naive. (exact relations)
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artless
adjectiveadj
adjective

• characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious

• simple and natural; without cunning or deceit

adjective satellite

• showing lack of art

• (of persons) lacking art or knowledge

childlike
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• befitting a young child

• exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity

credulous
adjectiveadj
adjective

• disposed to believe on little evidence

adjective satellite

• showing a lack of judgment or experience

green
verb, adjectivev, adj
adjective

• concerned with or supporting or in conformity with the political principles of the Green Party

• not fully developed or mature; not ripe

noun

• green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass

• United States labor leader who was president of the American Federation of Labor from 1924 to 1952 and who led the struggle with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (1873-1952)

• a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

• an environmentalist who belongs to the Green Party

• an area of closely cropped grass surrounding the hole on a golf course

• a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River

• any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

• street names for ketamine

adjective satellite

• of the color between blue and yellow in the color spectrum; similar to the color of fresh grass

• looking pale and unhealthy

• naive and easily deceived or tricked

verb

• turn or become green

guileless
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• free of deceit

gullible
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• naive and easily deceived or tricked

• easily tricked because of being too trusting

inexperienced
adjectiveadj
adjective

• lacking practical experience or training

ingenuous
adjectiveadj
adjective

• characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious

adjective satellite

• lacking in sophistication or worldliness

innocent
adjectiveadj
adjective

• free from evil or guilt

noun

• a person who lacks knowledge of evil

adjective satellite

• lacking intent or capacity to injure

• free from sin

• lacking in sophistication or worldliness

• not knowledgeable about something specified

• completely wanting or lacking

• (used of things) lacking sense or awareness

simple
adjectiveadj
adjective

• having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved

• (botany) of leaf shapes; of leaves having no divisions or subdivisions

noun

• any herbaceous plant having medicinal properties

• a person lacking intelligence or common sense

adjective satellite

• easy and not involved or complicated

• apart from anything else; without additions or modifications

• exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity

• lacking mental capacity and subtlety

• unornamented

trusting
adjectiveadj
adjective

• inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust

unaffected
adjectiveadj
adjective

• undergoing no change when acted upon

• emotionally unmoved

• free of artificiality; sincere and genuine

adjective satellite

• unaware of or indifferent to

unsophisticated
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• not wise in the ways of the world

• lacking complexity

• awkwardly simple and provincial

unworldly
adjectiveadj
adjective

• not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations

adjective satellite

• not wise in the ways of the world

wide-eyed
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity

• (used of eyes) fully open or extended

naif
noun, adjectiven, adj
adjective

• marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience

noun

• a naive or inexperienced person

primitive
noun, adjectiven, adj
noun

• a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

• a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

• a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms

adjective satellite

• belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

• little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

• used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies

• of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style

unenlightened
adjectiveadj
adjective

• not enlightened; ignorant

adjective satellite

• lacking information or instruction

uninitiate
verbv
noun

• people who have not been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity

adjective satellite

• not initiated; deficient in relevant experience

uninitiated
adjectiveadj
adjective satellite

• not initiated; deficient in relevant experience

Alternatives for ARTLESS

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