Naive

Antonyms for naive:

skeptical, intelligent, conditioned, experienced, trained, sophisticated, blase.

Synonyms for naive:

Sense 1

impressionable, sheltered, inexperience, lay, preliterate, exploitable, credulity, uneducated, unlettered, Dupable, childish, gullibility, jungli, Deluded, fledgling, harmless, illiterate, untried.

Sense 2

juvenile, rough-and-ready, unstudied, armchair, uncultivated, innocence, untrained, babe, barbarous, unrefined, rough-hewn, scholar, unqualified.

Sense 3

unskilled.

Sense 4

child.

Sense 5

raw.

Sense 11

easy.

babyish

infantile.

boyish

puerile.

gullible

credulous, gullible.

immature

dry, immature.

inexperienced

inexperienced, young.

naive

obvious, unsuspecting.

trite

mickey mouse.

uneducated

unschooled.

unenlightened

uninformed.

Other synonyms and related words:

impartial, green, archaic, dewy-eyed, crude, credulous, armchair, Dupable, innocence, unwary, unpretentious, childish, girlish, babe, unworldly, unqualified, kiddish, dry, naif, uncultivated, fleeceable, untutored, impressionable, truthful, obvious, rough-and-ready, careless, child, simplistic, exploitable, simple-minded, young, juvenile, fledgling, unguarded, untrained, immature, uninformed, unreserved, gullible, raw, uninstructed, gullibility, infantile, unschooled, unpretending, uninitiated, easy, harmless, aboveboard, untried, real, transparent, guileless, Deluded, unstudied, unskilled, unsuspecting, lay, unprejudiced, credulity, primitive, ignorant, simple, rough-hewn, susceptible, wide-eyed, puerile, illiterate, Sophomoric, true, unenlightened, uneducated, rude, scholar, inexperienced, uninitiate, unbiased.

all (adjective)

primitive.

artless (adjective)

honest, overt, sincere, Plain-spoken, undeceitful, blunt, undeceptive, direct, unrestrained, ingenuous, plain, careless, broad, Unartful, trusting, undisguised, downright, uncalculating, undeceiving, outgoing, unaffected, natural, un-artificial, Unbeguiling, genuine, callow, frank, unsophisticated, straightforward, open, candid, unpretentious, artless.

childlike, trusting (adjective)

harmless, aboveboard, open, unschooled, ingenuous, unpretentious, simple-minded, ignorant, wide-eyed, gullible, artless, guileless, natural, unworldly, credulous, simple, callow, unaffected, frank, innocent, green, plain, unsuspecting, sincere, innocuous, unsophisticated, candid.

green (adjective)

green.

gullible (adjective)

unsuspecting.

ignorant (adjective)

untutored, uneducated, unschooled, uninstructed, unlettered.

innocent (adjective)

innocuous, unsophisticated, snowy, spotless, unblemished, pure-hearted, blameless, unspotted, untainted, white, angelic, childlike, dewy-eyed, virginal, chaste, guiltless, innocent, untarnished.

juvenile (adjective)

girlish, kiddish.

plainspoken (adjective)

Plain-spoken.

reckless (adjective)

Sophomoric.

simple (adjective)

simplistic, artless.

thoughtless (adjective)

unguarded.

trustful (adjective)

trusting.

unguarded (adjective)

unguarded.

Sense 1 (noun)

uneducated, illiterate, untried, unqualified, unskilled.

Sense 2 (noun)

gullibility, unstudied, credulity, Deluded.

Sense 4 (noun)

babe, child.

ingenuous (noun)

childish, unsuspecting, unschooled, unpretentious, harmless, untrained.

naive (noun)

gullible, fleeceable, dewy-eyed, naif, innocent, artless, callow, simple, ingenuous, ignorant, simple-minded, credulous, inexperienced, unsophisticated, unworldly, wide-eyed, childlike, green, immature.

Usage examples for naive:

• This gentle Frenchwoman had a gift for psychological observation, and though her style is neither poetic nor philosophical, I may be pardoned for quoting at some length her naive and lucid revelations. - "The Psychology of Beauty", Ethel D. Puffer.
• Other people like you and me can do that sort of thing; but he-, and Caroline Darrah raised her eyes full of naive questioning. - "Andrew the Glad", Maria Thompson Daviess.
• I have adopted the expressions " sentimental" and " naive" from Schiller's well- known essay upon " sentimental and naive poetry." - "On Conducting (Ueber das Dirigiren): A Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music", Richard Wagner (translated by Edward Dannreuther).