Thesaurus:naive
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Sense: lacking experience, wisdom, or judgement
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- artless
- childlike [⇒ thesaurus]
- clueless
- credulous
- dewy-eyed (idiomatic)
- cute (used ironically)
- fleeceable
- green [⇒ thesaurus] (idiomatic)
- guileless
- ingenuous
- innocent [⇒ thesaurus]
- jejune
- Panglossian
- 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
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]Various
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “703. artlessness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “naive” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.