naive (a)
naif (a)

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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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