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 |
| Outgoing links | |
| 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 |
| Incoming links | |
| 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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