English > naive: 5 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly / worldly experience. |
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| 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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| Synonym | naif |
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| Narrower | childlike, wide-eyed, round-eyed, dewy-eyed, simple | Exhibiting childlike simplicity and credulity |
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| credulous | showing a lack of judgment or experience |
| fleeceable, green, gullible | naive and easily deceived or tricked |
| innocent, ingenuous | lacking in sophistication or worldliness |
| simple-minded | lacking subtlety and insight |
| unsophisticated, unworldly | not wise in the ways of the world |
| See also | credulous | disposed to believe on little evidence |
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| inexperienced, inexperient | lacking practical experience or training |
| ingenuous, artless | Characterized by an inability to mask your feelings |
| uninformed | not informed |
| unworldly | not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations |
| Opposite | sophisticated | Having or appealing to those having worldly / worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire |
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| Spanish | cándido |
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| Catalan | càndid |
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| Nouns | naiveness | lack of sophistication or worldliness |
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| Adverbs | naively | in a naive manner |
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