a02271544
type | a |
lex_filenum | 00 |
def | marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience |
examples | a teenager's naive ignorance of life the naive assumption that things can only get better this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances |
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Also see | credulous; uninformed; unworldly |
Derivationally related form | naive → naiveness |
Antonym | naive → sophisticated |
Similar to | childlike, wide-eyed, round-eyed, dewy-eyed, simple; credulous; fleeceable, green, gullible; innocent, ingenuous; simple-minded; unsophisticated, unworldly |
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Also see | credulous; inexperienced, inexperient; uninformed; ingenuous, artless; unworldly |
Antonym | sophisticated → naive |
Similar to | childlike, wide-eyed, round-eyed, dewy-eyed, simple; credulous; fleeceable, green, gullible; innocent, ingenuous; simple-minded; unsophisticated, unworldly |
Derived from adjective | naively → naive |
Derivationally related form | naiveness → naive |
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