Thesaurus:naive
English
Adjective
Sense: lacking experience, wisdom, or judgement
Synonyms
- artless
- childlike [⇒ thesaurus]
- clueless
- credulous
- dewy-eyed (idiomatic)
- cute (used ironically)
- fleeceable
- green [⇒ thesaurus] (idiomatic)
- guileless
- ingenuous
- innocent [⇒ thesaurus]
- jejune
- Panglossian
- Panglossic
- quaint (used ironically)
- simple
- simple-hearted
- simple-minded
- starry-eyed
- unaffected
- undesigning
- unpretentious
- unsophisticated
- untested
- unworldly
- wide-eyed
- immature
- born yesterday
- wet behind the ears
- virgin [⇒ thesaurus]
Antonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Various
Further reading
- “703. artlessness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “naive” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.