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naïve
adjective as in naive
Weak matches
aboveboard, artless, callow, candid, confiding, countrified, credulous, forthright, frank, fresh, green, guileless, gullible, harmless, impulsive, ingenuous, innocuous, instinctive, jejune, lamb, like a babe in the woods, natural, open, original, patsy, plain, simple-minded, spontaneous, square, sucker, unaffected, unjaded, unpretentious, unschooled, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, untaught, unworldly, virgin
Example Sentences
“I wasn’t naive enough to think that this wouldn’t have an impact.”
Using her charm offensive, Hedda goads naive spouses to cheat, recovering alcoholics to drink and depressives to wander off into the darkness with a revolver.
“Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha” reminds us that we’re only a naive and caring interloper away from making the world a slightly more welcoming place.
“I am not so naive to think that I don’t have anything to learn. God, I would quit now!”
Pat Murphy, Milwaukee’s 66-year-old manager, isn’t naive enough to believe that the Brewers are solely responsible for this bizarre phenomenon.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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