adjective
marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
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- 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
adjective
of or created by one without formal training
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- simple or naive in style
- primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking
adjective
lacking information or instruction
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- lamentably unenlightened as to the laws
adjective
not initiated
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- deficient in relevant experience
- it seemed a bizarre ceremony to uninitiated western eyes
- he took part in the experiment as a naive subject