Thesaurus:naive

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
• 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

• affected
• mature    [⇒ thesaurus]
• pretentious    [⇒ thesaurus]
• sophisticated
• wily    [⇒ thesaurus]
• worldly

Hypernyms

• foolish    [⇒ thesaurus]
• ignorant    [⇒ thesaurus]
• inexperienced    [⇒ thesaurus]
• lacking    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hyponyms

• ultracredulous

Various

• babe in the woods
• be born yesterday
• beginner    [⇒ thesaurus]
• bumpkin    [⇒ thesaurus]
• gullible    [⇒ thesaurus]
• ingenue
• mark
• naïf
• naïveté
• new    [⇒ thesaurus]
• newbie
• new kid on the block
• noob
• noobie
• greenhorn
• just fell off the back of a turnip truck
• rube
• sucker
• sweet summer child

Further reading

• “703. artlessness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “naive” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.