Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | naive, trusting |
| Synonyms: | being a sucker, believing, biting, credulous, easily taken in, easy mark, falling hook line and sinker, foolish, green*, innocent, kidding oneself, mark*, silly, simple, sucker, susceptible, swallowing whole, taken in, taking the bait, trustful, tumbling for, unskeptical, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, wide-eyed |
| Antonyms: | astute, discerning, knowledgeable, perceptive, suspicious, unbelieving, untrusting, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | green |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inexperienced |
| Synonyms: | callow, credulous, fresh, gullible, ignorant, immature, inexpert, ingenuous, innocent, naive, new, raw, tenderfoot, unconversant, unpolished, unpracticed, unseasoned, unskillful, unsophisticated, untrained, unversed, wet behind the ears, young, youthful |
| Antonyms: | experienced, expert, skilled |
| Main Entry: | innocent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harmless, naive |
| Synonyms: | artless, childlike, credulous, frank, fresh, guileless, gullible, hurtless, ignorant, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocuous, innoxious, inobnoxious, inoffensive, offenseless, open, raw, safe, simple, soft, square, unacquainted, unartificial, uncool, unfamiliar, unhurtful, uninjurious, unmalicious, unobjectionable, unoffensive, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, unsuspicious, unworldly, well-intentioned, wellmeant, wide-eyed, youthful |
| Antonyms: | cunning, experienced, impure, knowledgeable |
| Main Entry: | naive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | childlike, trusting |
| Synonyms: | aboveboard, artless, callow, candid, confiding, countrified, credulous, forthright, frank, fresh, green*, guileless, gullible, harmless, ignorant, impulsive, ingenuous, innocent, innocuous, instinctive, jejune, lamb, like a babe in the woods, natural, open, original, patsy, plain, simple, simple-minded, sincere, spontaneous, square, sucker, unaffected, unjaded, unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untaught, unworldly, virgin, wide-eyed |
| Antonyms: | experienced, leery, skeptical, wise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | simple |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | feeble-minded; not intelligent |
| Synonyms: | amateur, asinine, backward, brainless, credulous, dense, dimwitted, dull, dumb, fat, feeble, foolish, green*, gullible, half-witted, idiotic, ignorant, illiterate, imbecile, inane, inexperienced, inexpert, insensate, mindless, moronic, nitwitted, obtuse, senseless, shallow, silly, simple-minded, slow, soft, soft-headed, stupid, thick, uneducated, unintelligent, witless |
| Notes: | simple means 'plain, uncomplicated'; simplistic means 'characterized by a forced, unwarranted simplicity' |
| Antonyms: | aware, intelligent, on-the-ball, smart |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stupid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not intelligent; irresponsible |
| Synonyms: | brainless, dazed, deficient, dense, dim, doltish, dopey, dull, dumb, dummy*, foolish, futile, gullible, half-baked, half-witted, idiotic, ill-advised, imbecilic, inane, indiscreet, insensate, irrelevant, laughable, loser*, ludicrous, meaningless, mindless, moronic, naive, nonsensical, obtuse, out to lunch, pointless, puerile, rash, senseless, shortsighted, simple, simpleminded, slow, sluggish, stolid, stupefied, thick, thick-headed, trivial, unintelligent, unthinking, witless |
| Notes: | stupid refers to lack of ability while ignorant refers to lack of knowledge |
| Antonyms: | cognizant, intelligent, responsible, smart |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | susceptible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exposed, naive |
| Synonyms: | affected, aroused, be taken in, disposed, easily moved, easy, fall for, given, gullible, impressed, impressible, impressionable, inclined, influenced, liable, mark, movable, nonresistant, obnoxious, open, out on a limb, persuadable, predisposed, prone, pushover, ready, receptive, responsive, roused, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sentient, sitting duck, soft, stirred, subject, sucker, suggestible, susceptive, swallow, swayed, tender, touched, tumble for, vulnerable, wide open |
| Antonyms: | resistant, resisting, unsusceptible |
| Main Entry: | trusting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trustful |
| Synonyms: | believing, confiding, credulous, gullible, innocent, naive, undoubting, unquestioning, unsuspecting, unsuspicious |
| Main Entry: | superstitious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having superstitions |
| Synonyms: | apprehensive, credulous, fearful, gullible |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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