naive
adjective
1.
marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
- “a teenager”
- “;”
- “;”
2.
3.
lacking sophistication
Origin
Borrowed from French naïve, feminine form of naïf, from Latin nātīvus (“native, natural”). Doublet of native.
Phrases
- babe in the woods
- be born yesterday
- drug naive
- immunologically naive
- just fell off the back of a turnip truck
- naive falsificationism
- naive realist
- new kid on the block
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See also
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