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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
In her final days at Harrods, Helen remembers a new girl starting who seemed "so young and naive", like she once had been.
Also featured is Mekki Leeper, who wrote and starred in “Jury Duty,” as Matt, a novice RN who grew up in a Montana religious community “that doesn’t believe in ‘medicine’ ” ; as the just-arriving character, he’s idealistic, because he’s naive, and will have much to learn.
“Maybe this was naive of us, or naive of me, but I never thought that the city and the mayor would chose somebody like McDonnell to be chief.”
The governor pushed back on the notion that Trump would thwart his plans, but said he wasn’t naive about “this being a very challenged environment” if Trump won.
When Obama was elected, I was naive about political power.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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