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Pronunciation:
[ na͡ɪˈiːv], [ naɪˈiːv], [ n_aɪ_ˈiː_v]
Naive is a term used to describe someone who has a lack of experience or understanding in a particular area or situation. There are several synonyms for naive including ignorant, inexperienced, innocent, green, gullible, unsophisticated, naïf, simple, unsuspecting, and trusting. These words can be used interchangeably with naive, but each has a slightly different connotation. For example, ignorant implies a lack of knowledge, while gullible refers to someone who is easily fooled. Innocent suggests a lack of awareness of the darker aspects of life. Regardless of the specific synonym used, all describe someone who is unaware or unsuspecting of potential dangers or consequences.
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Similar words for naive:
- all (adjective)
- artless (adjective)
- callow (adjective)
- childish (adjective)
- childlike, trusting (adjective)
- dewy-eyed (adjective)
- easy (adjective)
- exploitable (adjective)
- frank (adjective)
- green (adjective)
- guileless (adjective)
- harmless (adjective)
- ignorant (adjective)
- ill-considered (adjective)
- incapable (adjective)
- inexperienced (adjective)
- infant/infantile (adjective)
- ingenuous (adjective)
- innocent (adjective)
- juvenile (adjective)
- natural (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- plainspoken (adjective)
- primitive (adjective)
- puerile (adjective)
- simple (adjective)
- simpleminded (adjective)
- straight-out (adjective)
- straight-shooting (adjective)
- stupid (adjective)
- thick-witted (adjective)
- trusting (adjective)
- unaffected (adjective)
- unguarded (adjective)
- uninstructed (adjective)
- unoffensive (adjective)
- unpracticed (adjective)
- unscholarly (adjective)
- unschooled (adjective)
- unsophisticated (adjective)
- unstudied (adjective)
- unsuspecting (adjective)
- unworldly (adjective)
- childlike (noun)
- dewy-eyed (noun)
- ingenue (noun)
- ingenuous (noun)
- naif (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- babyish
- immature
- inexperienced
- naive
- trite
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Naive:
adj.
• all (adjective) • artless (adjective)- open,
- outgoing,
- blunt,
- sincere,
- genuine,
- direct,
- Unbeguiling,
- uncontrived,
- honest,
- overt,
- downright,
- artless,
- trusting,
- plain,
- ingenuous,
- unrestrained,
- broad,
- undeceiving,
- careless,
- unadorned,
- candid,
- undeceitful,
- straightforward,
- undeceptive,
- Plain-spoken,
- unpretentious,
- uncalculating.
- un baked,
- un trained,
- un tried,
- un-ripest,
- un-fledged,
- un triedest,
- un fledged,
- most unbaked,
- un-triedest,
- more tenderfoot,
- more sophomore,
- un-trained,
- most unfledged,
- un-riper,
- most sophomore,
- more unbaked,
- most jellybean,
- un trieder,
- most tenderfoot,
- kiddest,
- more jellybean,
- un-baked,
- un-trieder,
- un ripest,
- un riper,
- un-ripe,
- un ripe,
- un-tried,
- more unfledged.
- innocent,
- instinctive,
- unjaded,
- virgin,
- original,
- confiding,
- countrified,
- jejune,
- lamb,
- square,
- spontaneous,
- patsy,
- green,
- unschooled,
- unsuspecting,
- fresh,
- aboveboard,
- gullible,
- credulous,
- simple-minded,
- innocuous,
- forthright,
- sucker,
- untaught,
- impulsive.
- most wide eyed,
- wide eyed,
- more wideeyed,
- dewyeyed,
- more wide eyed,
- more dovelike,
- un-corrupted,
- dewy eyed,
- un defiled,
- most wideeyed,
- most wide-eyed,
- wideeyed,
- un corrupted,
- more wide-eyed,
- un-defiled,
- most dovelike.
- more unsuspicious,
- un oppressive,
- most unsuspicious,
- most pardoning,
- most deceivable,
- sub-missive,
- more fleeceable,
- un-oppressive,
- most deludable,
- more pardoning,
- more spoiling,
- most spoiling,
- un burdensome,
- more deceivable,
- un-burdensome,
- more humoring,
- most unoppressive,
- more mollycoddling,
- more deludable,
- most excusing,
- most unburdensome,
- more excusing,
- most fleeceable,
- more pampering,
- most pampering,
- more forgiving,
- un-suspicious,
- Unoppressive,
- sub missive,
- un suspicious,
- more unburdensome,
- lax,
- more unoppressive,
- most mollycoddling,
- most humoring.
- more exploitatory,
- more exploitative,
- most exploitive,
- more exploitive,
- most exploitative,
- most exploitatory.
- from hip,
- most plain-spoken,
- more flat-out,
- like it is,
- un restricted,
- out spoken,
- lay it line,
- heart to heart,
- un inhibited,
- more heart-to-heart,
- out right,
- lay the line,
- bare faced,
- more bare faced,
- un disguised,
- out righter,
- most undisguised,
- out-spoken,
- call spade spade,
- outspoken,
- un-reserved,
- un-restricted,
- most bare-faced,
- more flat out,
- most flatout,
- out-right,
- flatout,
- most heart to heart,
- lay line,
- call a spade spade,
- un-concealed,
- more heart to heart,
- un-inhibited,
- un concealed,
- more bare-faced,
- trans-parent,
- more plain-spoken,
- most heart-to-heart,
- trans parent,
- saying what thinks,
- most flat-out,
- more plain spoken,
- lay on line,
- most bare faced,
- like is,
- lay it the line,
- more flatout,
- un-disguised,
- out-righter,
- more undisguised,
- call spade a spade,
- most plain spoken,
- lay it on line,
- out rightest,
- most flat out.
- more painless,
- in-noxious,
- more paper-tiger,
- most papertiger,
- manageable,
- re liablest,
- more nontoxic,
- most pussycat,
- un objectionable,
- un-objectionable,
- most paper tiger,
- most nonirritating,
- most painless,
- most disarmed,
- non toxic,
- non irritating,
- most hurtless,
- in-nocuous,
- more nonirritating,
- in operative,
- more disarmed,
- more hurtless,
- in offensive,
- most innoxious,
- dis-armed,
- most softie,
- most paper-tiger,
- in-offensive,
- more softie,
- in noxious,
- re-liabler,
- dis armed,
- re liabler,
- papertiger,
- non-irritating,
- more papertiger,
- in-operative,
- more pussycat,
- more innoxious,
- in nocuous,
- re-liable,
- most nontoxic,
- re-liablest,
- guiltless,
- more paper tiger.
- blind to,
- cretinous,
- unmindful,
- shallower,
- witless,
- unknowledgeable,
- uninstructed,
- shallow,
- unscholarly,
- unread,
- unconscious,
- unintellectual,
- nescient,
- mindless,
- birdbrained,
- apprenticed,
- misinformed.
- in-eligible,
- in-competent,
- in proficient,
- un-equipped,
- in capable,
- in-proficient,
- un qualified,
- in-sufficient,
- not to,
- most inproficient,
- most disqualified,
- in-capable,
- ineffective,
- un cool,
- more inproficient,
- dis qualified,
- more unequipped,
- more disqualified,
- most butterfingers,
- un ablest,
- un-ablest,
- un equipped,
- in effective,
- un-skilled,
- in eligible,
- in adequate,
- in-adequate,
- un skilled,
- most uncool,
- un-fit,
- un suited,
- more butterfingers,
- dis-qualified,
- impotent,
- in competent,
- incapable,
- un-cool,
- in sufficient,
- more ineffective,
- un-qualified,
- losing,
- more uncool,
- un-suited,
- most unequipped,
- un abler,
- insufficient,
- in-effective,
- un-abler.
- most amateur,
- more amateur,
- in-experienced,
- un disciplined,
- un accustomed,
- more prentice,
- most prentice,
- un acquainted,
- more rookie,
- most rookie,
- in experienced,
- un-used,
- un-disciplined,
- un-accustomed,
- un-acquainted.
- more developing,
- more dawning,
- growing,
- infant,
- initial,
- most nascent,
- most developing,
- more nascent,
- more newborn,
- most newborn,
- most dawning.
- like babe the woods,
- like a babe woods,
- most unartful,
- like a babe in woods,
- most unartificial,
- like babe in woods,
- more unartful,
- un artful,
- un-artful,
- like babe woods,
- like babe in the woods,
- more unartificial,
- un artificial,
- like a babe the woods.
- angelic,
- untainted,
- white,
- unspotted,
- spotless,
- snowy,
- chaste,
- untarnished,
- virginal,
- blameless,
- pure-hearted,
- unblemished.
- more unlabored,
- more unembarrassed,
- more simplehearted,
- un-feigned,
- un labored,
- most inartificial,
- laidback,
- most simplehearted,
- un embarrassed,
- most unembarrassed,
- un-labored,
- most up front,
- most unlabored,
- in artificial,
- more unassumed,
- most up-front,
- folksy,
- un-embarrassed,
- un forced,
- un-assumed,
- un feigned,
- most upfront,
- un assumed,
- un-forced,
- more up-front,
- more upfront,
- in-artificial,
- more inartificial,
- more up front,
- most unassumed.
- Kidder,
- Unoffensive,
- natural,
- atavistic,
- Unlabored,
- straight-shooting,
- cornfed,
- straight-from-the-shoulder,
- Infantine,
- Hurtless,
- frank,
- up-front,
- like a babe in the woods,
- being oneself,
- wide-eyed,
- prentice,
- exploitatory,
- Unartful,
- Unbaked,
- childish,
- unsuspicious,
- Deludable,
- Thick-headed,
- unaffected,
- babe in woods,
- call a spade a spade,
- unfledged,
- unspoilt,
- straight from the shoulder,
- lay it on the line,
- from the hip,
- juvenile,
- harmless,
- corn-fed,
- paper-tiger,
- nontoxic,
- vestigial,
- unworldly,
- unwise,
- jellybean,
- easy,
- un-artificial,
- laid back,
- heart-to-heart,
- innoxious,
- nonirritating,
- unembarrassed,
- straight-out,
- Deceivable,
- exploitative,
- ungrown,
- unstudied,
- simple,
- pussycat,
- not equal to,
- straight shooting,
- thick-witted,
- simpleminded,
- brutish,
- Unartificial,
- fleeceable,
- not dry behind ears,
- matter of fact,
- clueless,
- unsophisticated,
- non-toxic,
- untutored,
- stupid,
- sophomore,
- not up to,
- humoring,
- ignorant,
- wet behind ears,
- Inartificial,
- unequipped,
- spring chicken,
- callow,
- guileless,
- exploitive,
- puerile,
- nascent,
- simplehearted,
- Dovelike,
- upfront,
- Unburdensome,
- inproficient,
- uninitiate,
- undisguised,
- bare-faced,
- softie,
- exploitable,
- nonliterate,
- low tech,
- babylike,
- cornball,
- painless,
- saying what one thinks,
- uncool,
- lay on the line,
- halfwitted,
- Dupable,
- inexperienced,
- unassumed,
- unfamiliar with.
- most untutored,
- pre literate,
- pre-literate,
- un-refined,
- un tutored,
- un refined,
- most vestigial,
- most nonliterate,
- under-developed,
- more nonliterate,
- more brutish,
- un-tamed,
- most preliterate,
- un-domesticated,
- most atavistic,
- more preliterate,
- more vestigial,
- un civilized,
- most brutish,
- untamed,
- more atavistic,
- un tamed,
- under developed,
- non-literate,
- un domesticated,
- un-civilized,
- non literate,
- un-tutored,
- more untutored.
- in-sensate,
- dummiest,
- out lunch,
- most thick-headed,
- more thick-headed,
- most thick headed,
- more thick headed,
- in sensate,
- un thinking,
- half witted,
- thick headed,
- most loser,
- more loser,
- un intelligent,
- un-thinking,
- in-discreet,
- illadvised,
- in discreet,
- un-intelligent,
- dummier.
n.
• childlike (noun) • dewy-eyed (noun) • ingenue (noun) • ingenuous (noun)- romantic,
- rustic,
- easily imposed upon,
- unfeigned,
- unpolished,
- fanciful,
- provincial,
- boorish,
- uncomplicated.
- naif.
Other synonyms:
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•
- inexperience,
- gullibility,
- uneducated,
- credulity,
- unlettered,
- impressionable,
- preliterate,
- untried,
- jungli,
- lay,
- illiterate,
- sheltered,
- Deluded,
- fledgling.
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•
- rough-and-ready,
- innocence,
- untrained,
- babe,
- scholar,
- uncultivated,
- unrefined,
- barbarous,
- rough-hewn,
- armchair.
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•
- child.
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•
- raw.
- unpracticed,
- uncritical,
- not difficult,
- Cullible,
- Frank-hearted,
- bluff,
- unprejudiced,
- crude,
- inane,
- unsure,
- simplistic,
- budding,
- groping,
- underage,
- Unlicked,
- round-eyed,
- dewy,
- transparent,
- plainspoken,
- tender,
- fond,
- ripening,
- Unhabituated,
- openhearted,
- bumpkinly,
- inexperient,
- native,
- unbiased,
- trusty,
- minor,
- unposted,
- rude,
- real,
- trustful,
- not sensible,
- imbecile,
- Depending,
- vernal,
- uncomprehending,
- unenlightened,
- pure,
- fair,
- Unmellowed,
- babyish,
- undeveloped,
- uninformed,
- unilluminated,
- Relying,
- awkward,
- susceptible,
- dumb,
- reliant,
- Lain,
- know-nothing,
- unadult,
- unreserved,
- empty-headed,
- unformed,
- juicy,
- unrealistic,
- tentative,
- befoolable,
- unfamiliar,
- Open-hearted,
- unacquainted,
- persuadable,
- Single-hearted,
- truthful,
- Sophomoric,
- impubic,
- unripe,
- conventional,
- unintelligent,
- uninitiated,
- impartial,
- unversed,
- daft,
- lowbrow,
- true,
- unknowing,
- vacuous,
- aw-shucks,
- single-minded,
- unwary,
- dependent,
- unguarded,
- unacquainted with,
- empty,
- unwitting,
- hick,
- unpretending,
- sappy,
- foolish,
- born yesterday,
- indiscreet,
- Simple-hearted,
- unproblematic,
- innate,
- ingenu,
- archaic,
- gauche,
- unlearned,
- blankminded,
- silly,
- unseasoned,
- believing,
- intact,
- benighted,
- unconditioned,
- soft,
- Unapprized,
- unquestioning,
- churlish,
- extraterrestrial.
How to use "Naive" in context?
When talking about people, one word that often comes to mind is naive. This word best describes someone who is unable to recognize the realities of the world and judge things accordingly. Naive people are often taken advantage of because they are not worldly wise and do not know how to handle difficult situations. However, there is much to admire about people who are naïve, as it can often lead them to be more creative and innovative. There is also a certain innocence about being naive that is refreshing and charming. Anyone can be naive to some degree, but there are certain cases where it is an actual strength.
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Adjective
foolish, kindergarten, simple, unsuspecting, stupid.
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Adjective
childish, ignorant, innocent, naivety, simple-minded, simplistic.
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Homophones for Naive:
- neophobia, naif, nip, nineveh, Neve, neb, nave, niff, nymphaea, NPA, Nawab, nubia, nabob, nov, nebo, Niobe, niffy, neap, nypa, N.B., nippy, napa, nubby, nbw, nappy, nun buoy, nebe, new wave, nub, navaho, newbie, nap, napu, neva, nampa, ninib, navvy, nip off, nwbw, napaea, nape, nympho, nab, nv, nabu, nephew, napea, nbe, nymph, nob, nb, nova, navy, np, nepa, nib, numb, NIMBY, nipa, namibia.
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